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13 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 25 SEPTEMBER 2019 CULTURE Two West End performers – Katie Paine and Jordan Carr – have been announced as leads in the upcoming musical, We Will Rock You. It will be staged at the Mediterranean Confer- ence Centre this October. FM Theatre will be staging the smash hit show following their recent sell-out successes My Fair Lady and Mamma Mia!. It will be staged for the first time ever locally, and the theatre company is elated to have ac- quired the highly-sought-after rights to the show. Based around the greatest hits of the legendary British rock band Queen and with its book by Blackadder writer, Ben El- ton, We Will Rock You is one of the most popular and long- est-running musicals in West End history. It has enthralled the world's audiences across six continents with many of the band's iconic songs includ- ing Radio Gaga, Somebody To Love, Bohemian Rhapsody and – of course – We Will Rock You. "We are thrilled to be the first company in Malta to have ac- quired the rights to this incred- ible show and we can't wait to bring it to the stage," producer Edward Mercieca said. "We Will Rock You always brings the house down wherever in the world it is staged, with in- credible casts performing the songs of one of the world's most iconic and timeless rock bands. Now is the turn of Mal- ta's audiences to experience this spectacular show, with an equally brilliant cast that can rival any other in the world." For its Malta debut, We Will Rock You will feature top West End talent alongside other well-known local performers. Katie Paine will be taking on the role of Killer Queen, the show's villain. She is bringing to the Maltese stage her expe- rience as first cover in the West End production from 2011- 2014 at The Dominion Thea- tre, over which time she played the role more than 300 times. Jordan Carr, meanwhile, is also no stranger to the West End stage. He has travelled the world performing in musicals in a variety of roles includ- ing Frank 'N' Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Gaston in Beauty and the Beast. Jordan has also recently finished playing the lead role in Boogie Nights The Musical in London, and is now set to join the Malta cast of We Will Rock You in the role of Galileo Figaro. This West End-quality cast will take on the popular musi- cal's famous story, which is set in a distant future where Earth is named Planet Mall, all inhab- itants must dress, think and act the same, and where musical instruments are forbidden. Us- ing the framework of Queen's classic songs, a small group of Bohemians rebel against the system, and fight to restore free thought, fashion, and, most of all, music. The show will be spearheaded by leading director Chris Gatt, alongside vocal coach Analise Cassar, choreographer Warren Bonello and musical director Kris Spiteri. The stellar cast will also feature renowned lo- cal performers Michela Agius, Edward Mercieca, David Ellul, Tezara Saliba and Francesco Nicodemo. We Will Rock You is pro- duced by FM Theatre Produc- tions, with performances at the Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta on 18 October at 8pm, 19 October at 2.30pm and 8pm, and 20 October at 2.30pm and 8pm. More infor- mation may be found at www. fmtheatre.com and tickets are available online at www.mcc. com.mt. Top West End Stars join Cast for Malta debut of hit musical We Will Rock You FOR the third consecutive year, a group of secondary school students, who had participated in the Malta Junior Sci- ence Olympiad, were awarded Go4Re- search summer internships at the Fac- ulty of Science. During the summer months, the students were matched with research groups and worked on a wide range of interesting projects un- der the supervision of researchers and other academic members of staff. The student projects spanned a range of topics from marine biology, to quan- tum cats and technologies, electro- magnetism, plant ecology, chemistry, insect studies and bee keeping, physi- cal oceanography and statistics and operations research. The University of Malta's Faculty of Science, in collaboration with the Di- rectorate for Learning and Assessment Programmes (DLAP) recently held the concluding seminar for the Go4Re- search Student Internship Programme in the Auditorium of the University of Malta's Valletta Campus. The group of 19 students who com- pleted the internship programme at- tended this event and received cer- tificates of participation, including a student who interned with AquaBio- Tech. They also prepared and exhib- ited posters about their projects. For the first time, the HSBC Malta Foundation sponsored the Project Poster Award. Anton A. Gatt pre- sented the awards to the two winning project posters by Amber Dimech, Amy Chircop, Emily Farrugia and Julia Scerri under the supervision of Dr San- dro Lanfranco and Mia Gauci and Ka- tryna Grech under the supervision of Prof. Aldo Drago, Dr Anthony Galea, Dr Adam Gauci and Audrey Zammit. Faculty of Science hosts students for Go4Research internship programme Students participating in the Go4Research, together with researchers from the Faculty of Science, Pro-Rectors Prof. Ing. Saviour Zammit, and Prof. Joseph M Cacciottolo, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Mark A. Schapiro, DLAP Director Gaetano Bugeja, Assistant Director of DLAP Desiree Scicluna Bugeja, Faculty of Science Dean Prof. Charles Sammut and HSBC Malta representative Anton A. Gatt