maltatoday | SUNDAY • 10 JANUARY 2021
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THEATRE
The Trikki Trakki youth theatre festival
to launch a PANDEM-onju edition
THE fourth edition of the Trikki
Trakki youth theatre festival or-
ganised by the national compa-
ny Teatru Malta will be a special
one dubbed the PANDEM-onju
Edition.
Due to the pandemic, the 2021
festival has moved from a school
festival to a festival for which
everyone can apply. Applications
this year have been opened to
all young people attending year
7 (Form 1), year 8 (Form 2) and
year 9 (Form 3) of school and
who have a passion for theatre,
who were asked to send a filmed
audition to then select the best
applications.
For the last three editions of
the festival the schools them-
selves had to apply, but due to
health and safety restrictions
this year this was not possible.
Despite the great difficulties
that the theatre sector is fac-
ing, Teatru Malta decided to
go ahead with the festival, but
in a different form, adapted to
the new situation. The PAN-
DEM-onju edition will be a
mixed one, with certain activ-
ities that will take place online,
while others will take place in
the theatre, always respecting
the social distances and other
necessary measures.
Selected students will work
on monologues specially writ-
ten for them by local estab-
lished writers. The direction
will be in the hands of some of
the best local directors, as is
the tradition of Trikki Trakki.
The first rehearsals of the mon-
ologues with the directors will
take place online, then in the
week of production between 8
and 12 March they will work in
the theatre where they will give
a show to a limited audience
on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14
March 2021.
More details are available at
www.teatrumalta.org.mt
Antonella Axisa
