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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2015 44 This Week Challenging audience expectations We usually associate vultures with African scenes of lions gorging on fresh zebra while a skulk of sombre vultures wait for the cats to finish so as to hobble in for their pound of flesh (or gristle, tendon, skin and bone). But four species of vulture also make their home in Europe, though admittedly they are quite rare. With one exception, the vultures of Europe pretty much stay put in their territory all their life. That one exception is the Egyptian Vulture (M: Avultun Abjad), the smallest of the four and a regular migratory bird. So it is the one vulture species that occasionally graces our sky, as happened last week. It was a young bird (not the one pictured, which is an adult) on its first migration from a bird breeding programme in Sicily (in fact it also had a name – Tobia!). Incidentally Egyptian vultures are so called not because they originated in Egypt but because their image featured so much in ancient Egyptian culture, religion, writing and art – suffice it to say that the bird actually represented a letter of their alphabet. 474. EGYPTIAN VULTURE GREEN IDEA OF THE WEEK 377: FIND OUT MORE – WWW.FOEMALTA.ORG/LINKS/TTIP Visit Friends of the Earth's website for more information about our work, as well as for information about how to join us. You can also support us by sending us a donation - www.foemalta.org/donate Text Victor Falzon Photo Aron Tanti AN experimental new play – "difficult to define" even at the admission of its crea- tors – will be taking place at Spazju Kreattiv (St James Cavalier) on October 10, 11; 15-17. The politics of hatred are not the domain of politicians or parliament. They are the opinions and attitudes we have towards those we often know little about and conse- quently fear. This reality is at the core of this highly theat- rical production, where the concept of fear, difference and power is explored. This project has come out of the desire to break some rules of theatre performance and creation in order to seek out new possibilities for storytell- ing. "This involves a degree of risk. And there will not be an absolute success or failure. But we do believe it will be a beautiful chaos and challenge its audiences' expectations of theatre performance," a spokesperson for the produc- tion team said. The work is created through the collaboration of its team members Tommi Zeuggin and Kenneth Spiteri as main creators and performers as well as Maltese professional arts practitioners Mario Sam- mut (music/sound) and Aus- tin Camilleri (visual/set). THE STORY A King, a Fool, an island of salt one day a visitor arrives a strange creature the King mistrusts it, the Fool adores it the creature is tolerated until it reveals the King's weakness then it must die PHOTOGRAPHY BY P FUTURA TITTAFERANTE