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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 12 NOVEMBER 2023 6 ALMANAC My essentials ALAN PARIS 49, Actor and Creative Director Alan is a creative director in an advertising agency and also works as an actor. He has performed in several local theatre productions as well as small roles in movies and television. Together with Nanette Brimmer he is bringing back the "one-woman show performed by a man", I Am My Own Wife, due to popular demand. This will be staged at Theatre Next Door between 17 and 26 November. 4 5 1. Book 2. Film Internet / TV 4. Music 5. Place I'M not a huge 'Internetarian' so I'll go with TV. There's a fantas- tic spy series called Slow Hors- es with Gary Oldman. Besides it being hilarious and totally gripping, there is one very sim- ple scene where he's chatting to someone while eating a bowl of noodles. I have no recollection of what was said in the scene. But I'll never forget watching Gary Oldman slurp his way through the whole scene. Bril- liant! I like all kinds of music as long it's not death metal or techno. Recently my daughter creat- ed a Spotify playlist for us to share, she called it 'Spray paint the vegetables' which is one of my favourite song lyrics from the song Loser by Beck. We're filling it with music that we both like from the nineties and noughties, so I've pretty much got that on shuffle all the time. ONE of the most surreal places that I've ever been to must be the El Tatio Geysers in the At- acama Desert in Chile. They're at an altitude of 4,300m. You're woken up at stupid o'clock to get there before sunrise to ex- perience this incredible natural spectacle of hot steam shooting out of the ground. It felt like we were on some other planet! It's all over once the sun is up, so our guide warmed milk for our coffees inside one of the geysers and we had breakfast! Surreal. I don't get much time to read unfortunately. But I do make an effort to at least get a few pages in at night. Probably one of the best books I've read in the past year would be A Gentle- man In Moscow by Amor Towles. The storytelling is beautiful it involves a bit of everything politics, love, it's also a bit of a spy-thrill- er. I've also read his more recent book The Lincoln Highway which is just as good. SINCE both my wife and I are involved in theatre we don't watch many movies unfortu- nately, because one of us is in rehearsal! Series are easier. I recently did watch the latest Indiana Jones at the cinema with my son. Not the most intellectually taxing of films, but it was such fun to watch him enjoy one of my child- hood heroes. The film wasn't too bad either! Compiled by Laura Calleja suggestions by email lcalleja@mediatoday.com 1 This article is supported by Arts Council Malta 3 2