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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 19 DECEMBER 2021 8 ALMANAC My essentials JOSEPH ZAMMIT 32, Actor, singer and educator I always find this hard to answer really. I'm a graduate in BA in History and have been involved in the local theatre community for the last 13 years. I form part of two theatre companies; "More or Less Theatre" with Malcolm and Angele Galea, where we focus on children's educational theatre and have performed even abroad in Edinburgh and Washington D.C at the "WhatsTheirNames Theatre" with Philip Leone Ganado and Nathan Brimmer, where we've been putting up pieces since our university days. 1 2 4 5 1. Newspaper/Podcast 3 2. Film/TV 3. Internet 4. Music 5. Place LATELY I've re-watched one of my top three movies which once in a while I tend to do, to see if my past tastes would still be agreeable with my present self. Up to now they've reassuringly always had. This is Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guilden- stern are Dead". It's been one of my favourite scripts for years, but the movie, star- ring Gary Oldman and Tim Roth is just so good. Just the concept of two minor char- acters from a Shakespeare play who are completely blind and unaware of their predestined scripted lives was and still is one that tick- les my fancy. WHEN it comes to the inter- net I pretty much fall under the YouTube category. I tend to follow video essayists, on either cultural or social as- pects, your 'hbomberguy' your 'internethistorian' and so on. Currently however I do enjoy following one 'In- ternetCommentEttiquette', whose concept is to use par- ody and satire on how one should leave comments on YouTube videos to tackle sev- eral subjects and topics rang- ing from the social to the silly. All however pose an in- teresting and sometimes dis- heartening view of humanity and society (mostly Ameri- can) and current events with great humour. Highly rec- ommend it. WHEN it comes to music I vary tremendously, from Opera to Black Metal, but, also thanks to my older sister Maria Eleonora, Queen will always have the top spot for me. If I had to simply chose one song from Queen it would be "It's Late", a not so well-known piece from their album 'News of the World', a hard rock piece that just gave me a hitherto unknown lev- el of excitement first time I heard it. If not Queen, I'd go for anything Stephen Sond- heim hands down. When I heard Sweeney Todd for the first time for instance, it was a realisation where I never thought music could be used in such a way, a feeling that still resonates with me. LOCALLY I would really just vote for my home-village of Safi. It's aesthetically beau- tiful, quiet, and rich in his- tory. A literal Roman Wall is in front of my house for in- stance. Given the choice of foreign places however I'd im- mediately go for Edinburgh. I've been three times and admittedly only during the Fringe Festival, but even with- out the excitement and theat- ricality of it, Edinburgh just said something to me. The gloominess in the colour of its stones and streets, the col- ours of the hills surrounding it. I don't really know how to describe it, but I do know that I pretty much fell in love with her first time I went there. UNFORTUNATELY, most of the time I'd end up read- ing and studying scripts more than I would have time for a good book, so my list of read- ings has decreased somewhat over the years as otherwise it would simply become an overload of words in my head, but the latest book series I've been caught up in is the polish dark fantasy series by Andrej Sapkowski called "Wiedzmin" (The Witcher). I am a huge fan of the games developed by CD Project Red based on the series and became fascinated by its lore and setting, so I'm currently in the middle of the eight-book series the game is based on. The Netflix series is fact is an adaptation of said book series.