tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7822837391460154952024-03-13T11:41:20.890-07:00Artistic Encounters"Currently waiting by the wings for my cue . . . in the meantime I'm in a period of daily learning, through occasional artistic encounters, while humbly keeping Socrates' instruction in mind to 'know thyself'."Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-782283739146015495.post-65676018293547384732020-04-06T07:37:00.000-07:002020-04-06T07:37:19.207-07:00The Maltese-r's #StaySafe Journals - THROUGH THE TUNNEL PASSAGE<h4 class="gmail-p1" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The struggling chirping usually was heard occasionally close to my room blended into the blur of roadworks, angry motorists and early regulars walking by in the neighbourhood. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Now the birdsong has expanded itself </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>across the home in an embrace; </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>of the silence that has resided beside it </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>of a natural orchestra </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>surprise and </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>an unexpected joyful smile on my face</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>in the midst of this storm.</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>A few weeks ago, as I was oiling my mental writing gears, racking my brain further on to get back into blogging, I had the TV muted on the film </i></span></span></i></span></span></i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A Good Year</span></span></span></span><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> . . . </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>There is that striking part, shot-wise, (which is strongest at the end) where it goes from the protagonist in France, surrounded by natural colour, sunlight and vivacity he will learn to accept and gain later on (spoiler - sorry!) talking to his stiff-necked materialist colleagues in London who are drenched in drab grey. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Despite my forte being in theatre, I get curious in the other art forms, be it film, radio. In any form I am always drawn to contrast, and drawn to the approaches taken in the film, in shot, plot and vision. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2020</i></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Personally I think, alongside </i></span></span></i></span></span></i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Gladiator</span></span></span></span><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>this film was the best Ridley Scott made and directed, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>before he seemed to have become somewhat cynical in his later films. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2020</i></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>But the plot always attracted me in how the lead character enjoyed life when he remembered and went back to what mattered most. In a situation where he was cornered out of the dull rut he made himself comfortable in, he found the remaining space to have been home. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2020</i></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br /></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>When we're in an unexpected situation where we're cornered out of the rat race and mainstream mentalities that makes us take things for granted, even when the source of the situation is a pandemic virus, the best way to overcome the anxiety that drags us down is to take these quarantines as our breathers to step back and recall what makes us tick, what are those things that had livened us up and </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>will revive us when the storm ends.</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Hence, on my part, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>returning to the blog has made this platform </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>one of the means </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>against the current responses </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>that doesn't encourage a chance to breathe </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>let alone give space to think. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>My battle plan </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>is regularly developing</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>a post-quarantine list: </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>of those things that liven me; </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>those made to appreciate more </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>if not reminisce on a joyful reunion with, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>as well as things to look forward to do and have. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2020</i></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Whether or not I'll use other platforms </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>to bring attention to the journals, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and accompany each post with a podcast series, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I am still debating on it. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2020</i></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br /></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>In the meantime, as this virus makes us disorientated in a dark tunnel, I choose to attempt venturing for the Light. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>For in venturing the opening of the tunnel and set my eyes there, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>however far or dim it looks, there is Light. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>There is Hope. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #a64d79;">Throwback Theatre Series</span></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></h4>
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<a href="https://teatrumalta.org.mt/events/rfb/?lang=mt" target="_blank"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Raymond 'Fight' Beck</i></span></span></a></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Production House: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TeatruMalta/" target="_blank">Teatru Malta</a></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Director: Sean Buhagiar</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Playwright: Andre' Mangion</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">10th-18th March 2018 </span></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The concept and plot idea of the play Had
first been known to me in passing from its earliest stages. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>During rehearsal period of
Adam u Eva at St James (which was later performed in October 2016 for Notte
Bianca), coming in early to the cafe, I unwittingly got in the middle of a recorded interview between
the writer Andre (played Xih at the time) and a young boxer around the
same age and from there I got the load down on the play he was working
on, writing on. So I was very happy, after 2 years, to have seen it
enter the first stage of success: exposure. Being staged in its
existence as a Maltese theatre production.</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The
performance area was elevated to a podium transformed back and forth
into a boxing ring, reflecting well the foundation of the story for the
characters: how they face life in their lifestyle and in life, to fight
or flight. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>There were a few rap musical intervals over head (literally
over my head in my case as we were seated right underneath the area
where they were placed) of a rapper beside a DJ, bright lights
minimising this figure into a silhouette. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>A modern day chorus in figure and style. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>As the play progressed, especially the ending I was able to understand and recognise those
intervals and as greatly resembling the Greek chorus, and although I
couldn't pick up much on what he said, it was clear that the founding style that runs through the plot being moulded into a Greek tragedy. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>One seen thus far </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>as a literary watermark </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>in Arthur Miller's works. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I was greatly engrossed in this
play, not just by the modern presence
of the rapper-chorus, but also the woven plot of the actions and
consequences taken by two characters in the play.</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>All
the characters were well-formed, well-fleshed. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>They were perfectly chiseled archetypes in their own right, and without props present - for
there were very few - they set up the scenes, all maintained stance,
including the character played by Hector Bruno whom we haven't seen on
local stages for quite a while. His character Il-Lover (constantly
pronouncing the sport as 'books-ing') and his buddy Il-Grillu (Jesmond Tedesco Triccas) proved to
be the comic reliefs in the play, very well executed, the theatre fools -
not an insult! and regular Joes seen at most kazins.</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I
was drawn to the plot 'cause boxing as a subject is rarely ventured, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and the pieces reflecting the topic </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and forming the overall play set in
place </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and remained stable in showing the reality of the lifestyle of
these sportsmen: </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>the training, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>the personal life of the boxers </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and those
closest to them, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>the manipulation when rigging the games nudges its
ugly head into the plot . . .</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Especially the manipulation from the politician
and father of the current champ Dyson Cumbo (Davide Tucci), fixated on getting Il-Gustuz's (Zep Camilleri) kazin for his
own financial benefits. His sleeziness was clear and greasy (and that's
complimenting Peter Galea's performance) in offering a bargain that was
obviously one-sided to the owner and who's also coach to the titular character (John Montanaro). Like he
was gonna lose much in not going up for election that particular year - come on!</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Boxing
within this theatre plot proved that any theme and topic can be
ventured, and it wasn't intended to solely direct those who were active
in the sport or that only men would enjoy the performance and story - as
a storyteller and story lover I was most intrigued.</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<a href="https://scontent.fmla2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/29196546_347648245728274_5564282613247083441_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&_nc_ht=scontent.fmla2-1.fna&oh=70d03757553efa338e18163c44dcd7ba&oe=5D980BF8" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="533" height="320" src="https://scontent.fmla2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/29196546_347648245728274_5564282613247083441_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&_nc_ht=scontent.fmla2-1.fna&oh=70d03757553efa338e18163c44dcd7ba&oe=5D980BF8" width="213" /></a><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> I
would have appreciated that in the story, the woman in the ring, while
it is true that they are present as such in every match, wasn't just
for show, just to look pretty in holding up "Round" cards or boards
(upside down at one point) in fight scenes. She did shadow one of the
boxers' moves and punches as a form of devised choreography. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Kim Dalli's
character as Blair Darmanin was strong, even proved the chosen
sacrifices faced when your boyfriend's life revolves around the sport
(who also, in greek tragedy terms, was as much the tragic figure as her
killer in letting her flaw turn against her - catharsis? - and sign her
death certificate), so I'm not saying there was strong-weak portrayals -
not at all! </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>And there's nothing wrong with women not boxing, as much as
women choosing family life over a career. What I am saying is that when
a woman was in the ring, it wasn't to box or represent women who do box
in various styles, but to look nice - in use of a better word. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Would
appreciate a story one day of a female character boxing cos she loves
the sport, perhaps even hides a past and angst to her choice - just
brainstorming I CALL DIBS! - without the whole mockery that women who
are meek are weak . . . </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>(ugh - hate that statement!).</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>What I MOST definitely didn't appreciate was the use of REAL cigarettes during the
performance. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Clearly different styles of theatre were ventured </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and
moulded into the piece in matter of sight, sound, slow motion. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>If I
knew the practitioner they turned to I would mention them. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>But having an
actor in character - I remembered it was Il-Grillu - smoking a
cigarette onstage to 'venture' the sense of smell - and a strong
smelling brand at that! - was an absolute downright NO! Couldn't breathe
because of my allergy AND I wasn't the only one coughing. Just as they
put warning signs outside the theatre on use of strobe lights, the same
needed to be so for this. Even as a small side note. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I'm not fixating or joking or nicky-picky. I
want to enjoy a theatre production and appreciate the end result of a
persevering creative process, not feel like a health minority. And this
smoking scene wasn't once but more than four times - and this isn't
intended to insult Sean the director or Andre the playwright. Even I -
with or without strong allergies - would take that into consideration.</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Space
was blank as a canvas, extended to four walk on platforms at the
corners, and balcony was used for rapper chorus and as balcony, with 4
TV screens overhead the stage-ring.</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>-.-.-.-.-.-.- </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> I
remembered feeling afterwards "I want to write as good as that" and
felt i wouldn't write as strong as that . . . and then the play I was
currently working on came to my head, and the helpful advice Brad Birch
gave to my uncertainty during the intensive workshop about a month before.
The fact that I kept on working on it, writing it, the act itself is the
sign that i still believe in it even in its earliest stages, despite
the fact that it got rejected in the first session of proposing it to
the arts festival i wanted to direct it in. That I didn't leave it just
as a shaky synopsis plan, I held on to it without realising i did until a
second possibility came about to pick up the sculting tools and worked
further to another deadline, as a script.</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-782283739146015495.post-48319698804907417862019-01-18T10:19:00.000-08:002019-01-18T10:21:55.297-08:00Throwbacks and the X Factor Epidemic<h4 class="gmail-p1" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Between mulling over how to begin this post and wrestling with the fussy pacing of a grey Persian passing back and forth near my desk, my new turquoise A5 yearly diary sits prominently at the corner of my desk (indirect courtesy of The Flying Tiger), making me ponder of the type of year I had since I last wrote in this blog. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Aside from making sure to any genuine readers that I am not dead, I feel the need to get back to writing both for inspiration's sake, be it this blog or a forthcoming theatre project (as was the reason for my distancing from the blog I am happy to report), and for myself. I simply enjoy the feel of pages turning in a journal, almost as much as the rapidity of the laptop keyboard, which my hands subconsciously makes no difference in rhythm to a piano piece.</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I need to get back to the gym. Writing-wise. So pardon in advance for my rusty style. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2019</i></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I am resolved - <b>not</b> forcibly 'cause it's another start of a New Year - to get back into writing in this blog. The dictatorial mundane sight of people half drooling over their phones on FB or whatever has really made me itch to recap a few certain events that is worth sharing and reflecting on. As well as vent &</i></span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> rewind in my mental memory bank a slight dose of the X Factor hype a few weeks ago. More a little later. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2019</i></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The certain events I was glad to have been a part of, and which aided me further to develop as an artist, I officially dub and label as <u>Throwback Theatre</u> - lacks originality, but beats the lack of effort. Mostly pending posts or theatre productions I have seen and been in. Won't need to be exactly in chronological order, just random enough to place personal footnotes alongside each. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2019</i></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>A few weeks ago I was able to aid MADC alongside others as Front of House to their latest panto </i></span></span></i></span></span></i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jack and the Beanstalk</span></span></span></span><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>, written and directed by my good friend Malcolm (had the pleasure to work with him before in a period play, <b><a href="https://art-encounters.blogspot.com/2017/03/a-personal-stoop-to-conquer-story.html" target="_blank">feel free to linger shortly here</a></b>). </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The antics people bring along for each night in my attempt to distribute the programmes are countless, enough to want to write up a satirical sketch on them one day. There really are 'types' one faces on this end of the theatre, but thankfully the upsides were the surprises I found able to form in making people smile with an unexpected joke . . . and the liberty to watch the panto one night amidst the more vast selection of seats. Missed seeing the last night - Prank Night to some laymen out there, but still a Win-win sitch.</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Another bonus was going backstage before shows and snuggle up in one or two dressing rooms equipped with a heater over one side. It wasn't just keeping from the cold that enticed me to come backstage; simply put, one doesn't need to explain the need to be in her home environment. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I was a bother to no one, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>caught up with friends, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>made a few more . . . </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and along the way I saw and heard first hand </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>what affect the Prime of X Factor was having </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>both in that venue and to the production people of MADC.</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>For starters, the venue. I confess to have got myself lost one night, in trying to get to a shortcut to the panto area without having to walk all around in the cold. I ended up in a near empty tent, which turned out to be the official area where X Factor Malta would be broadcasted. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Best way to describe it? Out of that WHOOOLE Massive space - which was used previously for Michael McIntyre's tour - only about 20% of that space was stage, seating and dressing rooms. AND the seating was just three, angled, elevated podiums for the seats, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and the stage quality was . . . eh! </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>(Cliche' of TV making things look twice the size fits snuggly for this).</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>This was also responsible - in <u>my</u> opinion - of the confusion on the audience trying to get to see the panto; because the usual entrance area was blocked due to X Factor and panto entrance had to be someplace else (i.e. just next door), it brought many late-comers AND exasperation on both ends. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>To be fair, there was word going round on both ends that they couldn't see the signs and possibly didn't think ahead on parking; I will not pretend to know the whole details on that situation, but this slight move caused a little confusion for me to find.</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Then the behind-the-scene effects of the show </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>on MADC panto revealed themselves in: </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>missing doors, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>missing mirrors, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>the leisure of one soundman (I think) coming over from X-land </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>to MADC to slowly and casually fill up a kettle, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>from the water cooler belonging to MADC. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The occasional 'volume' </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>coming from their dress rehearsal booming over to our neck of the woods, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>vibrating the wooden compartments acting as dressing rooms, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>that acted as temporary back massages.</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2019</i></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>On the penultimate show, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>vibrating, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>ad nauseum . . . .</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Boom -</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> WaAHHH AH AH AH AH!</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>- introducing with the soundtrack from </i></span></span></i></span></span></i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Greatest Showman</span></span></span></span><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>, apparently someone's entrance wasn't satisfactory and had to start AGAIN! Invoking a Panto ensemble member to comment, "They think <b>they</b> are the greatest show?!?". </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>A message I <u>really</u> want to give to all this at this point. This particular retelling isn't based on cynicism, and I enjoy </i></span></span></i></span></span></i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Greatest Showman</span></span></span></span><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>, songs and all. On both be assured. I would encourage my sibling to give the contest a shot. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>But the one message is this: </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>if you propose to emphasize the importance of being professional to newcomers to music, to the arts in general, if your main priority is to BE professional, please, show it OFFSTAGE as WELL as in public. 'Cause what I later heard happened during the penultimate night was beyond unprofessional. It was plain disrespectful. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>One MADC member in charge of production went to X Factor soundpeople, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>asked once, twice to put the volume down. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Nada.</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Ziltch.</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>COMPLETELY ignored her. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br /></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2019</i></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Then another production member, tougher than the first and understandably annoyed (in use of a better word), went straight to sound person in charge of the controls and straight out pointed their disturbance towards panto going on AT THAT MOMENT! </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Man: (half squeeking) Eee, sorry sorry sorry </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>No joke, when I was watching panto that evening, from where I was sitting there were such sound interference going on a few times during the show, and I hated to think what it was like for them on final night (as X Factor rehearsals were to go on till midnight).</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2019</i></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>What annoyed me personally the most, was that all the fuss and noise and interference and lack of respect going on before that Sunday, was all for a semi final! I mean good grief, panto has been going on longer and EVERYONE knows that final show would be on a certain date in January. X Factor Malta is <b>still</b> a baby - the lack of professionalism really revealed itself when they ought to have set the date of that semi-final - or start of a final 'cause it seemed to be in stages - when panto was done. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Need I say again it caused so much problems?</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2019</i></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>*Gentle Exhale*</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2019</i></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> As I said, the venting isn't based on cynicism, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>isn't to pick a fight </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>or to discourage anyone who enjoys X Factor Malta. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>My retelling, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>based on what I heard in passing </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and saw in my 'snuggle-home times' </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>in the dressing rooms, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>is to point towards the need to see this: </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>the main priority for </i></span></span></i></span></span></i><u><b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">any</span></span></span></span></b></u><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> artist -whatever their artistic vocation - is to respect other artists. Keep community alive.</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br /></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>That is an ethic I personally adopt </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and try to act upon as a person and an artist. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2019</i></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>It is an ethic X Factor didn't act upon. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>If X Factor is truly rooted in encouraging and aiding new artists in music, they need to teach it in their actions towards others. Might sound simplistic, but the simple is what grounds any person and their common sense. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Till next post folks!</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>their third and final intervention "</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Baħħar"</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>for the Opening Ceremony of V18 two days ago.</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>This was the only theatre performance and in Maltese from the whole festival programme this year. Saw this with my sibling on the very last night of the festival, and as an audience member I got to support Leanne Ellul, another good friend of mine and in the arts, who was involved in this production. She wrote up the script and then passed it on to the director Marta Vella.</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The noteworthy title (translated as "Are We Siblings or Aren't We?") for starters certainly caught my attention. The set up within the performance space was very simple, in that they depended on a few white wooden boxes made accessible in more ways than one to seamlessly flow into different scenes.</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2017</i></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The development of the story equally so as their characters directly and indirectly help each other, not only out of their grief of losing their parents so suddenly but also out of their personal inhibitions. The businessman older brother Alex needed to get out of a dead-end relationship, out of the superficial 'responsibilities' of work in London and focus on a better, more worthy responsibility; taking care of Pete his younger brother while getting him out of his shell to follow his baking passion. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>A good amount was delivered within that limited time of 50 minutes; my sibling certainly enjoyed and for someone who's not so interested in theatre that says alot. The plot didn't seem like it was trying to compensate for lack of other characters present. In a way, the two characters were good instruments for the playwright to be able to weave the other characters into the audience's imagination. One brother mentioning a classmate or another mimicking their father or recalling their mother's kindness didn't feel tedious at all. </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>after having made a nasty gastro-blend </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>of alcohol and a birthday cake </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>meant for Pete's classmate the night before, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and Pete, being the younger of the two, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>paradoxically maintained a father-like maturity and asks, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"From a scale of 10 to 10, how stoned were you last night?"</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> (my rough translation). </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Most especially in the strong vulnerable scene where Pete suffers an anxiety attack; it brought more sensitively into full circle the direct impact of the tragedy, his outpouring of being able to grieve and how this displays right there what happened that day which then developed Pete's sense of guilt. That was a brilliant written scene to bring the brothers closer.</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I salute to Leanne for creating a brilliant piece of work, to Marta who executed an active and seamless vision with the simple devices used at hand, and to the actors who supported each other really well to bring this production together to even gain the interest of older audiences.</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br /></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The Wishing Thread</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>One of the prominent installations in Ziguzajg that most of us assistants had a good number of rounds; it served to be an experience for those young and old writing up the wishes, intended to instigate hope for good in the future and appreciate the environment in the green scenery.</i></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> Situated
in front of the new Parliament building (with Stefania seen above), at
Castille Place opposite St James Cavalier and at St George's Square, all
within Valletta.</i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>It also served as an experience for us assistant on our end, not just receiving them and tying them up for them but in encountering and meeting various stories in those encounters waiting to be told. </i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2018</i></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>They were even, for me personally, encountering diverse people from various walks of life, a story inspiration waiting to happen. </i></span></span><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I had the pleasure to meet Manala, the creator <a href="http://www.manalijagtap.com/the-wishing-thread-malta/4594092100" target="_blank">behind this installation</a>, during one of my rounds at Republic Street. </i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2018</i></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>It is inspired and adapted by an Indian festival 'Vat Purmina', founded and became an annual tradition by a myth From what little I can remember, the myth goes that a woman falls in love with a man who she knows has few years left to live, but marries him anyways. Close to the time, she fasts for days out of love for him in the hopes that he would live. What else I can remember is that every year women would fast for their husbands and tie threads for them on a banyan tree (the national tree of India) as they pray for them.</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2018</i></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>How ever accurate the myth really is about, the adaptation into the installation was well transformed into that floral eye-catching sight children (and tourists) would be drawn to. They would write a wish of good will for others on paper tags provided, and then tie their wishes onto the woolen string woven into the potted local flora. </i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>that by the end of the festival </i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>all the written wishes </i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>would be collected </i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and archived. </i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The installation I'm certain </i>did<i> encourage 'wishers' to keep hope alive while appreciating nature.</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">As I said earlier it created a unique experience for us assistants, </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">especially through the people I personally encountered. </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">In the midst of bombastic bus-cades from freshly toga-ed graduates, air horns and all </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">- in the midst of young 'veteran' wishers looking for theirs tied in plastic coverings</span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">- and the friendly reunions of young acquaintances </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">which I will treasure the surprise </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">at having seen them again.</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i> </i></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2018</i></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><u>A Maltese mother and son</u> came to the Castille area during my night shift. </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">As he was writing his wish, they were on their way to see a show at the School of Art some streets down, </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">where his mother said it was the same venue he'd done music exams for the drums. </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">I recommended </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">he ought to listen </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">to the song Take Five </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">from the jazz band The Dave Brubeck Quartet. </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Knowing my slight dyscalculia I might have written them the wrong year, </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">so here's the version I was aiming for with the drum solo. </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">It was a bonus one quiet night </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">for the installation to be visited </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">by <u>six women from the Netherlands</u>, </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">all enthusiastic to write down their wishes.</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i> Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2018</i></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">At one point I was made part of a <u>selfie treasure hunt</u>. Twice. </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Groups of people from some finance or insurance </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">- can't remember what it was exactly </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">- were going round Valletta </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">finding people to pose in selfies with them </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">for this treasure hunt. </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">I simply stood holding up my name tag </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">so Ziguzajg will be noticed and sneakily advertised. </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">At least the second group </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">accepted the exchange of writing up some wishes </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">for the Wishing Thread in return.</span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><u> </u></span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><u>A little girl from China</u>, </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">who looked about five years old, </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">came up with her mother and she drew a cute little angel on her paper tag, </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">and it was equally sweet to have posed with her </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">as her mother took a photo from her phone.</span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">One kid declared out loud his enthusiastic wish before writing it down, </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">a sweet friend to one Elliot; </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">he wished for <u>his friend Elliot to be "a Flash"</u>. </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">His mother smiled warmly </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">at his innocent declaration, </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">saying "I'm sure Elliot will be really happy with that".</span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2018</i></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><u>Il piccolo Damone e sua famiglia.</u> At my "Parliament shift", this young Italian family came up, I thought they were tourists but they've been residing in Malta, for over a year I believe. They perused some of the tied wishes, with the father holding the cutest few-month-old baby boy, eyes bright turquoise blue, his whole outfit was blue right up to his beanie hat with ears sown on top. </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">I remember this sweet encounter clearly, </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">mostly by the wish that his mother wrote in Italian, </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">written on little Damone's behalf:</span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">"I am four months old; this year I will be celebrating my first Christmas. So my wish will be that all the little children like me will receive the joy and happiness that Christmas always brings!".</span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b> </b> </span></i></span></span><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2018</i></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">(signed with a little doodle </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">of a baby's face </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">and a strand of curly hair </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">poking out of his head)</span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">During one of the boisterous buscades at Castille Place, <u>an American architect student</u> got interested in the installation in the midst of rambunctious whistles. Seeming close to my age, she's from Washington DC, studying at Pennsylvania, currently in Rome who is on holiday in Malta to see St John's Co-Cathedral. </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2018</i></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">In passing her a festival program she got her interested in the events going on AND she made a good choice that same evening in seeing TAG which were among the performances I recommended to her that were going on that day, and this was when I got to watch it a second time. </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">There was also this affectionate and <u>enthusiastic American family from DC</u> who were having a self-planned family holiday in a few countries, where Malta was their penultimate stop, before going to Sicily and then back home. </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">The paper tags helped me again this time, as the mother asked what sights to see within Valletta, to get them to the Co-Cathedral to see Caravaggio's 'Beheading of St John', which intrigued her as it turned out she had studied art in college and had covered a little on Caravaggio. It had definitely felt good that day to recommended this to the family, as they seemed to like winging it on holidays - which has its merits as much as a plan, but it would have been a shame for them to have missed it, especially for the art grad.</span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">I too grasped the opportunity</span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">to write two wishes for the thread, </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">having tied them both to Parliament area, </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">and created two other copies of those originals </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">that I now keep in my room as other personal mementos </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">of my Ziguzajg adventure in 2017. </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Naturally I'm not gonna share them out here! </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">They're archived now so that's good enough for me.</span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2018</i></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">As I look back with a relaxed smile, re-living the jovial air and adventure and all the ZiguZajg Festival brought, </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">it helped me grow, as I served, as an actor, </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">as a theatre practitioner, </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">as an artist, </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">as an art-and-theatre-lover, </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">as a lover of innocence. </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">And having assisted and reminisced </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">it solidified the nagging idea </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">that manifested itself </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">into the production idea and process </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">I have till now created and proposed for this year's festival, </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">having officially sent my proposal two days ago.</span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">After seeing and befriending some performers </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">and artists in their own medium . . .</span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">I am itching to create</span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">to begin </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">to delve</span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">to form a new family among friends </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">a </span>bigger <span style="font-weight: normal;">family even </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">to still be a part of that creative community.</span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">who willingly need to rest after strenuous months, </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">and that's understandable . . .</span></i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">but that internal blaze in me keeps growing </span></i></span></span></h4>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">expanding to reach out to share</span></span></span></i></h4>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">to befriend </span></span></span></i></h4>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXLM3bql52Q" target="_blank"><u>and create</u></a>.</span></span></span></i></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Here's to hope!</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of
life. </span></i></span></span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in
spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">~ G.K. Chesterton ~</span></span></i></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Starved a </i>wee <i>bit . . . </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>But was all worth it! </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Took me a few good days last week to get physically rested. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Still waking up at 5am-ish, but it'll pass. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Eventually. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Had enough energy - thankfully! - to prepare for an audition, </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>perform it in the weekend </i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2017</i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and then hang out with my younger sibling.</i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2017</i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>A little history lesson; a few years ago, back in 2012 to be precise, I had heard from a classmate at Uni that assistants were needed for some arts festival for kids, new to my ears as the ZiguZajg Arts Festival. It intrigued me and I signed up to help for a few days during that edition. </i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2017</i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The atmosphere and seeing kids interact with installations and shows made for them got me so hooked that nearly every year after that I pestered the head co-ordinator . . .</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>(*sheepish grin* sorry Daniel)</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>asking if they needed assistants that year. </i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2017</i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The atmosphere was like bringing the playground to them; </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>making it beyond their imaginings </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>in storytelling </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>through the various artistic mediums; </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>making greater imaginings reachable to savour. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The artists of that edition </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>(and - spoiler alert! - of this year) </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>were telling kids </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>that the playground is fun again, </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>that to those 'funny people' in costumes, </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>playing different characters,</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>telling stories in their own way,</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>through acting, dancing, performing out on the street,</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>the theatre and its space is the playground.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>for the festival and the whole package got me to attempt proposing a project idea earlier this year for this edition's festival, alongside Clare Azzopardi and Leanne Ellul. </i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2017</i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> to advance further as a working artist, </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and was glad to hear that a call for assistants was just opened and in perfect timing! </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I saw a variety that would have made any theatre practitioner feel gladdened with.</i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2017</i><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Cheering on the inside to FINALLY place images on my blog again!</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Originally an open-air installation, it got moved to the British Legion Bar to avoid possible mishaps with the changing weather. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>It seemed many people who booked for this show with their kids imagined it to be about Greek gods and goddesses and mythology - which would have been an interesting concept to present as a performance for the festival. Though it wasn't. Younger audiences than the intended age came to watch, one even younger crowd I heard was not very impressed.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I befriended the dancers Pamela and Kostas and simply enjoyed 'serving' them where needed. Not that I didn't enjoy doing so for the other performers I was assigned to - anzi! I was all out there in socialising and noting what the participating companies and performers needed in this edition. </i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2017</i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The thing was, it was more cordial; before seeing their performance I got to ask the 'Tag dancers' questions and learn on how their creative process is developed; shared some of my own approaches of using certain forms of choreography and vision in previous productions I did and directed (including presenting one small choreography with my hands from within a particular scene </i>in Adam u Eva<i> back in Notte Bianca 2016). </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Stated being a method actor and 'text-based', I had chosen to play around and incorporate with such choreography to season the scene and poetic text in Guze Aquilina's play more, and I really appreciated how, when I demonstrated the hand choreography with the lines from that scene, Kostas understood and pointed right out the subtext behind it, before I even highlighted it. </i></span></span><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>(Brávo!)</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I enjoyed greatly the contrasts of their personas as they told their story of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ziguzajg/photos/pcb.1551832641539031/1551832258205736/?type=3&theater" target="_blank">boy-meets-girl</a>, </i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>their synchronised timing, especially in their 'date scenes' - those really cracked me up, </i></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>the musical selection tracks which were constantly asked for their names by audience members. </i></span></span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>That vibrant Shalom track and the one right after it still reverberates in my memory.</i></span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Curiously enough, I had interpreted the ending slightly different the first time </i></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>When she, Pamela's character, brings out the scissors out of her wooden box,</i></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>as the voiceover was heard closing with "But . . . to touch can be to give life", </i></span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and she cut the elastic string situated over her head, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>prompting the blackout, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2017</i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I had interpreted that to mean that she forgave him and removed the 'wall' that had barred him away from her and was interacted as such a wall a few times.</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>But it turns out, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>she was actually cutting from him for good,</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>which made a little more sense </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>as to the effect the string's sound made </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>at being cut.</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2017</i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br /></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>It certainly switched on the creative ideas department </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>in my head, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and a particular production idea </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and plot </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>which is growing </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and nagging </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>as I watched further performances, </i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>even at</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> this moment</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span> . . .</i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The speciality of the four performers - and a secret fifth - was dance promenade. (I think there was another particular term for it but can't remember it off the bat, it's a new word to my ear to be able to register it.) </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>One of the festival assistants walked with a massive boombox playing music, strapped around his shoulders, leading as to the route the performers were going, doing their thing.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Well . . . I say 'thing', but in truth it was beyond simple terms; all improvised and unexpected. A couple of them interacted with some of the audience, including me I can gleefully say, going in circles, climbing up walls and windows, intertwining with each other. </i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2017</i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>One funny situation I faced was having ended up trapped by the four performers in their routine of rounding up some other audience members - my friend Jacob and his co-star Heloise to be precise - as the four of them remained holding hands.</i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2017</i><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> They even used the facade of the Old Royal Theatre (Teatru Rjal in Maltese) in Republic Street as their performance space - which then led to something even more intriguing! The performers weaved around making people hold each others' hands and in less than a minute there was a massive, long, human chain that wove around the street and other streets, popping in and out of shop doorways and stepping over some of the performers that made themselves interestingly convenient to lay on the ground in the way of the human chain.</i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2017</i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Heading down a smaller road, close to the finale, I noticed that the fifth one dressed up as a tourist ended up lying on the floor in front of a bar. At first I thought he was meant to be found that way, that he was pretending to have passed out from too much drink ( . . . at a closed bar). But the next day I had found out that they</i> had<i> used a coconut in their routine throughout, including bonking and splitting the coconut on the fifth guy's head. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I kept wracking my brain for a few days, wondering how did I manage to miss that. (I think I can be alittle forgiven as I wasn't exactly in the very front of the crowd when he got bonked.) But it was exhilirating, another of my favourites. I was grinning and laughing throughout!</i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2017</i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I had known </i></span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>before </i></span></span></i></span></span>of this French kids story in passing, when I was meeting up with some companions from scriptwriting course and perused the Maltese version of the story adapted by Clare Azzopardi, which she happened to have on her. </i></span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>So when I recognised it to be the same one done by these Maltese actors and musician, I was really pleased that it became part of the ZiguZajg programme this year.</i></span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Circuses aren't unfamiliar to me. </i></span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Back in Summer 2013 I took part as an extra of sorts during CirkuMalta's DariRari in the Malta Arts Festival and watched the performers work during late night rehearsals. The same circus team from that performance then came to Malta again for last year's ZiguZajg. </i></span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2017</i><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The kids certainly laughed their heads off at one of the performers telling off his comrades in a kiddish scream, as he tried to instruct them how to fix up the pole for the following performance number in their repertoire.</i></span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2017</i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Despite how physically depleted I was feeling close to the end of that week, their show sure got me hooked on every minute.</i></span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i> Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2017</i><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Ernesto and Bianca stood out differently in style; a clowning performance. The male lead has an obsessive behaviour, comical routines all round and yet authentic in how it reflects those who behave this way in real life: rubbing the door knob clean before going out, putting the key in and out of his pocket as he counts up to seven or fourteen to be absolutely sure he's not locking himself out, placing a cloth over his keyboard at 'work' and rapidly hand-chopping with loud succession over the keyboard to clean it . . . to then quietly adjust his spelling mistakes on his computer. </i></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Then he encounters the love of his life, Bianca from next door adoring her plant from her balcony, as she waters each leaf that she names - Lulu, Kiki, Fabrizio . . .</i></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The adults loved it as much as the children, especially when the fourth wall was broken and Ernesto enthusiastically acknowledged them at being reminded to get the 'tea!' and 'gallettini!'. The kids savoured it in telling the characters what to do, and one kid had such a sharp ear for Bianca's signature jazz melody that when Ernesto came to sing it to her, the kid ended up finishing off that jazz melody for him by one note which got fits of laughter.</i></span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2017</i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>And I closed off my final shift </i></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>as assistant </i></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>with that show </i></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>and a tired smile. </i></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Though the festival had one more day for me to see as an audience member . . . </i></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><a href="http://art-encounters.blogspot.com/2018/01/ziguzajg-2017-part-2.html" target="_blank">Part 2 Right HERE!</a></i></span></span></i></span></span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>just one more time<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> than you <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">fall.</span></span></b></i></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Olive<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">r <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Goldsmith</span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">18th Century </span></span></i></span></span>M<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">annerisms <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I seem to soak up <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">from e<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">very rehearsal these past few <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">weeks<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've</span> en<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ded up hearing it and seeing it over and over again in my sleep<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">! </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I read a C.S. Lewis book and <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I</span> hear f<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ellow cast <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">members' voices <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with</span> a hint of Irish<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">it has been <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a little tricky to write up a ne<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">w entry of a new venture I'm in. Let alone looking for another artist to interview and e<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">xp<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ose</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> - or recount my previous <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">adventure with my team<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>at Notte Bianca <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">five months ago.</span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2017</i><br />
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style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">reflect upon </span>ever since <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've been made part of the Ens<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">emble <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for MADC's production of<a href="http://www.madc.com.mt/en/upcomingproductions/productions/53/she-stoops-to-conquer.htm" target="_blank"> </a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><a href="http://www.madc.com.mt/en/upcomingproductions/productions/53/she-stoops-to-conquer.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , 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roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">r</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span 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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I always sensed it in m<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">e to be <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">active in theatre<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As an actor I</span> had officially started out </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">- without the politics of favouritism <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at school</span> - </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at the GCHSS Drama<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Troupe<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2017</i><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I</span> grew and stepped well into each performance for five years.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></i></span></span>
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></i></span></span>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I </span>got into University,</span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I went through the frustrating period </span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">facing after every audition </span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">one rejection after another. </span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">: I got the sensation <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">one has to 'get there' </span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by being recommended </span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by word of mouth </span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through friends in theatre sc<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ene, </span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and I ha<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ve</span> seen <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ple<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">nty of th<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at while <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I</span> was doing the course.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2017</i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Second<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">: Most of those audition<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">s, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">anxiety inducers as they were at t<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">he start, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">felt like going into an interview </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">o<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">r facing a 'justice</span></span></span></span> of the pe<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ace'</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> - <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ah! D</span>ang! <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A</span>gain! </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">slight chuckle</span>)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">- that is, they didn't have that one-to-one workshop feel of gaining feedback and re<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-trying.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">t was only later </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through</span> advice from </span>genuine<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> acqu<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ai</span>nt<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a</span>nce </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with a </span>fel<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">low more experienced actor and practitioner </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that I learn<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ed</span> . . . . </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A</span>uditions need to be <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">approached</span> as performance pod<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ium. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is not about the impossible task of getting into the director's head to be as close to <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">what</span> they might have had in mind of the character. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is about presenting your potential<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">your abilities as an ac<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">r, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">your personal view <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and portrayal of the character</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span>as well as your personification of said charac<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ter </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">being</span> the end result of getting <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">familiar</span> with<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> their language, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">analysing the nature of the tex<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">t </span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and forming the p</span></span></span>ers<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2017</i><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From that frustration of trying and retrying, <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">along with that revelation </span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I</span> </span>went to perform, not 'audition'. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2017</i><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Where <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I</span> was lucky to get an open one-to-one with the director i took advantage of that<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Where it wasn't, it was merely performing to one audience member. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The progress<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ion became such that <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I</span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">got</span> comfortable in <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the</span> process and mindset of <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">performing</span> rather than mere presenting, <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">exercising my <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">acting mus<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">cles <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've</span> had for over 10 years.</span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2017</i><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">process served me well even currently in rehearsals <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She Stoops to Conquer</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I learn even </span></span>more <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by picking up personal tactics and method acting from fellow cast mem<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bers and director<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yet what makes it even more fruitful is the comradeship forme<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">d.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My character in the play </span></span></span></span>is <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">small, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">but it is enough to socialise, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">befriend </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and re-acquaint. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The intervals between each <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">scene is never dull. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A hub of bizarre-ness and humour that never tired me. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The conversations jump from a Whovian debate <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">of who really was the best companion, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to recounting <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">funny one<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-</span>liners<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And just yeste<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rday Ma<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lcolm went and got a Baci cho<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">colate bar, places a tag wr<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">itt<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">en </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Prize</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> to give to the one who least mucks up their lines<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> in both acts.<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>Playfully</span> dragging it <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">away</span> and <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">back</span> in response to an actor or two <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">blanking out<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">responded by</span> </span>chuckles at getting distracted <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by</span> t<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">his 'c<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">arrot'. <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">M</span>inor characters didn't count for the chall<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">enge, <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as a few abruptly protested a<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">t my asking. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2017</i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Being in the production also got me grabbing my camera<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> for inspiration. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have found, as<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I</span> did in </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mer<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">chant of Venice</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that the best photographs to take </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">come about among the cast during rehearsals<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">- - - - </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fact: The <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">m<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ain</span></span> concept of the mistake of a night was inspir<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ed by what </span>happened to Goldsmith personally in his childhood. <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Given a g<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">uinea at s<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">chool, he <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">decided</span> to spend it at an inn. He asked a passer-by, Co<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rnelius Kelly,</span> to direct him to the 'best house</span></span></span></span>' - the best inn<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. As it al<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">so me<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ant the </span></span>best house of a good re<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">putable family, Kelly pointed him to 'the best house'<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I</span>t wasn<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">'t until<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Ol<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">iver</span></span> had dinner</span></span> with the 'innkeeper' and the 'barmaid' his da<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ughter, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">went up to bed, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ordered breakfast in bed in the morning, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and asked for th<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">e bill </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that he realised his mistake.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">am</span> glad to ha<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ve got back treading the stage. After 3 years directing, it<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">'s</span> good to take a brea<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ther<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, be given this opportunity in one of my favourite plays and scene in said play. Directing gives that sense of independence from those many rejecti<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ons and exercise the muscles of another expression of creativity<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. B</span>ut those, <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I</span> believe, can only be well-obt<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ained</span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>in being an actor first. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2017</i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">other thing <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I</span> remember from my Drama Troupe years is that in the <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">public <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">performances</span> it is always best to start off small before progressing <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">later <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to complex parts.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It does take a sense of stooping, starting out small, </span>keeping oneself grounded<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, </span>to build up and . . . "sigh"<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>conquer. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2017</i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Well, it's a form of conquering oneself. Making sure among other things <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I </span>don'<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">t get big-headed<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, though for now all <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've</span> been doing is offering <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and asking if anyone needs an extra hand with the<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ir</span> lines.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It's stooping to gain further experience. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have a good feeling of where <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm at right now. <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pimple the Ma</span></span>id in this production, step by step, more and more characters, <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">plays</span> and people</span> to acquaint with.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>It has been quite a rollercoaster for me since the last less formal post. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Been through a temporary upheaval that affected any sense of living or capability to believe in one's self. It's worse when that enemy is a s<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ystem that's in desperate need of a good piece of humble pie <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with a good dollop of common sense on the side. </span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But the cert<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ain <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">turbulence</span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I got battered with did give me some ounces of humility, to enable me to look within myself<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">;</span> </span>not only be able to smile and <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">love m<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">yself flaws and all and be patient with myself, but to remember also - which most of us need daily - that Christ never turn<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">s</span> away even in those <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">mo<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ments and episodes where <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I</span> would have cringed in recalling.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2016</i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>This isn't some cheesy p<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hrase folks<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> or copying off a bumper sticker<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">;</span> it actually places me more at rest to face life and live to the fullest. Including writing here again<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and</span> </span>love and do theatre all the more. </span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2016</i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">t</span> also has made me more sensit<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ive <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">towards other p<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">eople's tr<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ials and tribulations, even when their situations don't exactly reflect mine to a T. <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The sense of is<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">olation, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">being shunned </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in response to silly mistakes and even pathetic actions. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Facing the prejudice of <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">narrow<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-</span>minded people </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">who would probably hide from the world </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">if their own sins got pasted </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to the public eye. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I pity the<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> narrow-minded</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as much as their actions and behaviour </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lead me into a symphony of exasperation<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yep, <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> latter</span></span> felt <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">those tr<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ials</span></span>, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">curren<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">tly going through them<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I felt <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">them</span>, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">winced their same pain, and I am glad <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to look back . . .</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">am glad to <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">have suffered </span></span></i></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and s<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">urvived those things </span></span></span></i></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that has made <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">me se<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">nsitive to others' Calvaries. </span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Those friends <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">thou hast, and their adoption t<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ried, </span></span></i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #45818e;">Grapple to thy soul with hoops of steel. - H<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a</span></span>mlet Act I Sc3</span> </span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> (<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">S</span>eems fitting </span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to grappling also </span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">their pain with<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> empathy)</span> </span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2016</i></h3>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hope <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ingrained deep<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">er</span></span> into the structure of my soul, even facing a society where daily <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">amnesia</span> and ignorance is the pleasant comfort</span> and permissi<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on slip to talk crap - 'xcuse my French -<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and waste their lives doing so. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2016</i></h3>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am all th<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">e more glad </span></span>to currently go through a new venture that makes me more mys<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">elf in the process.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2016</i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://art-encounters.blogspot.com/2014/09/summertime-theatre.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">T</span></span>wo ye<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ars</span> ago</a> I directed a Maltese One Act <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">play</span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by Guze' Aquilina - </span>an adventure in itself as it never got staged t<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ill then.<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2016</i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I was so engrossed in the process, in the many leaps of <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">faith <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I</span> took in taking risks within this production, was so uplifting from day one to <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">final curt<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ain call <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and to receive so much <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">confirmation<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> of the good t<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hat came about on so many <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">levels</span></span></span>, </span>that I </span></span></span></span></span></span>had thought as a director <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I</span> wouldn't be a<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ble to do any<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> other p<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lay better after<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wards</span>.<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2016</i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When I</span> venture<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">d with a <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">different English</span> play the following year and formed a fami<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ly with the lo<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">vely all-female cast<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">i</span>t was throug<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">h that p<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">roduction I realised that <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I </span>had nailed and developed a <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">method within those two years that worked both as an actor and a director.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That same Maltese play, <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> a</span>m happy to update, has been accepted to be performed for the annual city festival know<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">n as Notte Bianca. AND it'll be per<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">formed just as unique and new, <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">through a medium which for the time being <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I</span> will not jinx in revealing just yet. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2016</i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">th<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">e rehearsal process all those opportunities to take leaps of faith <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">has come back and rejuvinated within me the love to create again<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. I almost didn't recognise how much cha<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">nges came about, and yet <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the play</span> proves itself as young as two yea<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rs ago (paradox intended). So yeah,<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm</span> sensing a good change coming about, and something <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've</span> been longing to do since <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was doing my Theatre and English degree.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> It ain't no hobby, or else <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I</span> wouldn't be blessed again in this way.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> God help our country from those who see artists as mere enthusiasts or call what we do . . . a hobby (facepalm). X'pacenzja!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2016</i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Also I have been eyeing with en<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">thusia<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sm <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">an</span> audition<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> of my favourite play - next to Shakespeare -</span> </span></span>that I hope that this time <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'll be blessed with th<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">e opp<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">o</span>r<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">tuni<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ty to get out of waiting by the win<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">gs and show local the<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">atre go<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ers </span></span>what I can do.</span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2016</i></h3>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.72px;"><b><i> by G.K. Chesterton</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.72px; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Christ-Child lay on Mary's lap,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.72px; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">O weary, weary were the world, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.72px; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Christ-child lay on Mary's breast</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.72px; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">His hair was like <i>a star</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.72px; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(O stern and cunning are the kings, </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.72px;"><b>O weary, weary is the world, </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.72px;"><b><i>The Christ-child stood on Mary's knee, </i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.72px;"><b><i>And </i>all<i> the flowers looked up at him, </i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.72px;"><b><i>And </i>all <i>the stars looked down.</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.72px;"><b><i>May you all have a Blessed Christmas </i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.72px;"><b><i>and a Fruitful New Year.</i></b></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's official. Theatre is best enjoyed in the summer. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The steady heat lingering in the air, the flexibility of choice in venue, setting & performance area on the part of producers and crew, adaptable also for the director to take on new heights in envisioning the script at hand needed to be made manifest, reflected from the casts' side also. </span></i><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2014</i><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I can speak and relate from my last summer adventure for </i>The Merchant of Venice<i>, but a recent, most professional Maltese production I have watched last Friday night - 31st July - got me motivated to create a new post, recalling what got me into theatre in the first place: a desire - both as actor and audience - of being enveloped and transported into a story.</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2015</i></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I don't consider myself a critic, hence this isn't a review. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I find critiquing a theatre production half takes away the enjoyment of watching a performance, and this little factor took some time to brush off after a few projects and presentations for Theatre Studies back at Uni. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Besides, where there's need to think, it comes by itself. So . . .</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Recalling this solely </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">and theatre lover-practitioner.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">We passed the gates of Fort St Elmo, striding through a stone passage leading to the Pjazza t'Armir. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">First sight of immortal antiquity, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">specially in link to the Knights of Malta </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">emplified this ageless-ness even further.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Four massive pseudo-crates on wheels were aligned in front of the natural backdrop of the pjazza, a church's facade. Two w</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">omen dressed in WW2 army uniforms gave us what looked like an old newspaper, the front page dated 1st September 1943. A piece of history in our hands, cleverly recreated to be the program and containing the cast/production bios for <i>Faith, Hope u Charity</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">The play began.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the pianist cueing a blackout </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">and a grandmother walking in with an old pram</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">leading the spotlight across the stage . . .</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal;">We follow the story of Marija, </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal;">a volunteer nurse in WW2 from a Maltese noble family, </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal;">both in status and virtue,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal;">helping others as a duty </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal;">and family creed. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal;">Living with her grandmother the Contessa Fiorini Sacco, and their personal maid, </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">she ends up in an uncomfortably political and very awkward love triangle.</span> </span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2015</i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal;">Commiting in a relationship </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal;">with well-reputed </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal;">Irish pilot William 'Timber' Woods</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal;">(true person in history) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal;">and yet drawn to Francesco Cavalli,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal;">made prisoner-of-war when he lands by parachute </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal;">in her grandmother's garden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We're also drawn to the subplot of a family of farmers, providing some humour to the play and as much humanity in joy and suffering as in Marija's social circle and surroundings. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Their scenes were my personal favourite; one scene always cracks a smile as I</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> remember the father chastising his mischievous son:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal;">Jekk taqa' minn hemm fuq u tmut, noqtlok!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal;">(<i>If you fall from up there and die, I'll kill you!</i>)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Karmen Azzopardi clearly was a worthy narrator, </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">a joy to watch such a veteran for the first time, </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">considering her ten year absence from the stage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I had last seen her on the stage over five years ago, though reading out some sonnets for MADC's </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Shakespeare's Centenary Celebration </i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">between short performed collections of the Bard's plays</span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Aside from past mental reverberations of a well-known TV series back in secondary school, <i>It-Tfal Jigu Bil-Vapuri</i> (Children come by Boats).</span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2015</i><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">I</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">n most of this current play her presence and recollections as the older Marija drove the story on, and made manifest echoes of Maltese history before us, </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">as to the fanatism faced . . . </span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2015</i><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A mob-fight down the then infamous </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">who were minding their own business</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">getting busy with their usual local whore, </span></span></div>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and local Fascist </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">having their routine </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">attention-seeking marches </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">for anyone's cringing pleasure.</span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2015</i><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Coming to that theme, </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">it's precisely those various historical-echoes </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">recounting actual events </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">through these scenes of fanaticism, </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">deaths, </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">arrests </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and mentalities </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">that this theatre piece aided to bring them to life. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Something which history books couldn't, </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and up till that night, could only be imagined </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">straight from the recounts of those who lived and witnessed them. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If one were lucky </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">or took the time to listen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">I was well impressed by the creativity and ingenuity </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">behind the four simple crates, </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">one sole 'crate' turned inside-out</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">into the farmer's family's humble abode, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">in the second act as an interrogation room </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and the two remainders transformed into Contessa's living room, spreading & joining its outer area as the garden.<b> </b></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2015</i><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">On the evening I went, there were some mishaps: </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">the moving backdrops for the living room for starters. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As Marija was sitting in an armchair</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">conversing with her grandmother, </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">mid-sewing, </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">a slight breeze </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">eased the left side of the living room wall from its position, </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">wheeling in a 90 degree angle </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">and very nearly hit the young actress </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">as she got warned by the audience's sudden gasps </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">and nervous chuckles.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One other mishap </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">however </span><span style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">was humorous. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The head patriarch, grandfather of the farmer family, </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">well brought to life by veteran Mario Micallef</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">was talking in very authentic rough Maltese dialect, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and the scene was rudely bombarded by 21st Century fireworks, </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">not far off from Fort St. Elmo,</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">blowing up vociferously </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">in colours </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">on the far right of the sky, </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">giving the actor no choice </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">but to freeze in a position, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">hands up face level, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">e</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">yes looking upwards, </span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2015</i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">silently encouraging his fellow cast members in that scene to wait, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">and invoking respectful applause from the audience in his manner of dealing with the situation.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>As said previously, the church facade acted as another stage backdrop. </i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>All this happening with a blue moon (said to appear on that night's performance) slowly rising to peer over familiar tragic displays of years before.</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">specially when her characteristics contrasted brilliantly in company of the other characters.<b> </b></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2015</i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">She doesn't have that squirmishness that is normally expected from an upper class figure, conversing with the housemaid and farmer family as equals, sharing in condolences and sympathies at the father's death, </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Her grandson, the Fascist leader of the previous Strada-parade, Marija's cousin, gets a well-deserving, whopping great slap from her at a social gathering. Her act </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">removing all sense of personal social decorum to do what's right.</span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2015</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">The Contessa-grandmother is a strong character; the playwright made her an ambassador, rightly so, clarifying to the </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">colonial authority</span></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">, when she's taken in for questioning</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">that the Maltese's identity </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;">is not to be seen as barbaric. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">was the ending lines from older Marija; </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><i>the fabric that she used to create the baptismal dress, </i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><i>that had gone down from her children to the youngest descendent, </i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><i>was from the same parachute </i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><i>that landed Italian soldier Cavalli into her garden. </i></span></span></span><br />
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<i><b style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A somewhat strong connection to my late grandmother, Rosette Pisani, rekindled in me that evening. </span></b><b style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Watching the play, </span></b><b style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I recalled my fondest memory of her telling me what she saw and experienced in the war as a child, and the play acted as an instrument in bridging a close tie to her. </span></b></i><br />
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<b style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>the front page copy of the newspaper dated 1943.</i> </span></b><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; font-weight: bold;">Diandra A. 2015</i><br />
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<b style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>what was she doing that day? Thinking that day? </i></span></b><br />
<i><b style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></b><b style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Where was she at that point? </span></b></i><br />
<b style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>At home? with her siblings? Parents?</i></span></b><br />
<i><b style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></b><b style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Did she see this very front page, on 1st September with her own eyes? </span></b></i><br />
<b style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>What did she witness? Felt?</i></span></b></div>
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<b style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At curtain call, special public thanks was given - with a bouquet of flowers - to an old woman in the front row, Anne Rossi, who aided the whole team in giving the play more flesh in sharing with them her past experiences in WW2 as a plotter charting pilots of the Royal Air Force. </span></b><br />
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<b style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I really do hope they consider publishing the play's script into a book. </span></b><b style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It would be worth holding a copy </span></b><b style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and keep it right next to Francis Ebejer's <i>Il-Gahan ta' Bingemma</i>. </span></b><b style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Second reason being to finally learn the possible symbolism behind the use of Cavalli's parachute as a baptismal dress . . . I somehow can't shake off this un-enlightened intuition.</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><u>Claire Farrugia</u></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>First Place in Art Competition</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>by Lakireddy Balireddy College of Engineering</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>in Vijayawada, India</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Exhibited at 7th Malta Cultural Institute Concert</i></b></span></div>
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold;"><u>Social Links:</u> </i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/BreathebyClaire/timeline?ref=page_internal" target="_blank">Breathe by Claire Facebook Page</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>How long have you been painting?</i></b></span><br />
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<i style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I've always remembered painting since a young age; it was when I took Art for O-Level that I took painting seriously. That was more or less where I really started.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>What normally inspires you when you're working or about to work on a piece?</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">S</i><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">tress. </i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">[laughs]</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> The more stressed I am with exams the more I paint. </i><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That or music usually. If there's a new song I like, it inspires me and brings about a certain emotion, so I try and convey that to my drawings.</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2015</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Looking at your works on your
Facebook page, I gather <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BreathebyClaire/photos_stream?ref=page_internal" target="_blank">your individual trademark</a> as an artist is combining
fused bursts of watercolors with simple pen or pencil drawings. Why this combination in
particular?</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;"><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I like watercolors.
I also feel the pen helps gets the details out, and I like details. It’s a
challenge to achieve them out with watercolors alone, yet I’m satisfied when I
manage to depict the details with watercolors. </i><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I like to keep it simple as
much as possible and allow the person space to make their own interpretation of
the piece. Keeping the mystery of that vagueness.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Who are your favourite
artists?</i></b></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2015</i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Unfortunately I haven’t studied art that much to know many artists, the classic ones are
those I know the most. I have seen some classic ones which are inspiring; though I do love Michelangelo’s anatomy, I love looking at the sketches rather
than his actual works. I personally don’t stick to one complete style; I feel
different elements and combine them. Sometimes I incorporate them and sometimes
I just leave them alone.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Favourite themes you go for. . .</i></b></span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">I think when
you look at paintings in watercolours they’re mainly sceneries. I personally
find sceneries boring, so I tend to draw people instead because there’s a
certain emotion behind people and especially the eyes, to me that’s
interesting. Whereas with scenery it’s all, “oh look there’s another Mdina”. I
need to draw some sceneries aswell; they sell, whereas people as subject matter don’t sell that
much.</span></i><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2015</i></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>When it comes to sketching, what I specially like
to do with my sketchbook is preserve a fragment of a day into each drawing. For instance when I was in Spain and I would be in a
coffee shop alone, I’d sketch the scene
and write the details of it, such as what time it was, what song was
playing. It’s as though I took a part of that place with me. I like to
collect, almost like creating a time-capsule on paper. It’s more intimate working
in a sketch book.</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2015</i><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For you personally what difficult inhibition do you face when exposing your art? </span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What’s that one inhibition that’s holding you
back?</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Smiles]</span><i> That bring out the character. I’m really shy, I hold myself back about it and I’m
not in-your-face kind of person. Even to upload something on Facebook, it’s a wrestling match with myself as to whether or not to upload a piece and if it's good enough to be viewed now or another day. </i></span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Over a year ago you got to lead an art workshop on the use of watercolor blocks. How was the whole experience for you?</b></span></i><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2015</i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was really nervous at first, but it was a brilliant experience. The people that attended had already seen my works and really loved them, so it was a great boost for my self-esteem on a different level. </span></i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>How did it feel to teach and pass on to others some techniques that you developed?</b></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was great because I got to work with an enthusiastic class! Despite giving people the same notes and techniques, each and every person will take what you gave them and change it to produce something new and different. I managed to learn plenty from them.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Talk to me about the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BreathebyClaire/photos/a.571706362951562.1073741829.163579643764238/571706349618230/?type=1&theater" target="_blank">art competition</a> you did in India.</i></b></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2015</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="color: #bf9000;">That was at a
university; they were holding a competition where they set a list of themes.
People could participate and I signed up and got first place. It was all sudden;
the people that were taking care of us saw my work and were persuading me to
show what I can do through this competition.</span><span style="color: #b45f06;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2015</i></div>
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>See I’m in an organization
called AIESEC; two people from Malta went up to India, and later we had other
interns in different AIESEC branches around the world. We were living with
people from AIESEC India, who introduced me to this competition. They were also
having a stand at that university to try and promote AIESEC. I got to go up onstage
to get the certificate when I won; it was a proud moment.</i></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You also had <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BreathebyClaire/posts/502866353168897" target="_blank">exhibited your work</a> at the Cultural Institute
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was a very
on-the-side exhibition. During the intermission people could come and take a
look. It wasn’t focused on the art. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Unfortunately I don’t have the resources to
hold my own exhibition where my artwork could be the main focus.
Though that sideline exhibition was still exposure, because that way I could
see people’s reactions: see if they’re attracted to it, which ones they like
best, which concepts, which colours especially. It’s good to see their reaction
and get their feedback about it and see the way they interpret them. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I don’t
like being direct, in the sense I don’t dictate to the viewer through my work
what they should be feeling. You let people interpret it and see what they want
to think about it.</span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></i><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2015</i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Been putting blogging and interviews on hold for quite a while now . . . feels good to get back to writing again. Still intend on interviewing <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BreathebyClaire" target="_blank">artist Claire Farrugia</a>. It is a challenge I admit to think up an interview plan for someone who clearly has talent and yet sadly hasn't got to that stage of being given that opportunity to exhibit her works with an air of recognition and humble attention. I hope eventually this and next post will be a medium to aid her on, just as I have done in a previous Calling-To-The-Stage Segment.</span></i><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2014</i></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Meantime, I've been doing theatre in double this summer. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I acted for the first time in MADC's production of <i>The Merchant of Venice </i>as Stephano, and directed for a second time in the annual One Acts Festival with a Maltese play that has never been performed by the playwright till this September.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It felt great participating in one of my favourite Shakespeare plays earlier in July; to befriend and be among an awesome & lively cast and crew, see the story develop gradually up to rehearsals and performances at San Anton Garden </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and watch the poetry and characters come to life . . .</span></b><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2014</i><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Citing in unison </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to strong monologues and scenes </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">were my personal delights, </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and parroting some trademark verbal shenanigans </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">were never lacking between us. </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>Who chooseth meee . . .</b></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yet the more I attended the rehearsals </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and dove further into the story </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">as a piece </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">beyond the pages and the academics, </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the more I could see a deeper layer in the play that presented more than merely being an "anti-Semitic" piece. </span></b><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2014</i></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The theme can only be rounded up in one phrase: </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>the presentation of sinners</i></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The Merchant of Venice</i>, I believe, is a medium of <i><u>presenting people from various walks of life</u></i>. It was not just made up of racism and hate scenes, but each scene of that scenario were stitched up by hinted linings of people with flaws, and yet are redeemable. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Redeemable also <i>if</i> they allow themselves on that path to be beyond the stereotype placed upon them.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2014</i><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></b>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>I believe </b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a reflection </b><br />
<b style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of our </b><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">imperfect </b><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">human state </b><br />
<b style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">as sinners </b><br />
<b style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and the rippling effects we create </b><br />
<b style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">at each other.</b><br />
<b style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></b><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2014</i><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></b><b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Shakespeare is more than a poetry-monger. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He is a mirror barer. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Whoever passes his path becomes the echoing soul he places in his plays,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">occupying the bodies within his fellow actors on the stage. </span></b></div>
<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">His pen brought to life </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the gossiper, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> the arrogant, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> the materialist, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> the proud, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> the humble, </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the feminist, the misogynist </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(I'm thinking here more on Benedict and Beatrice in </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Much Ado About Nothing</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the amateur (like Dogberry in same play).</span></b><b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Even most of his villains </span></b><b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">aren't solely villainous </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">without having flaws</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">emotions </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and a history behind them, </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">because perhaps </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to see right through such people. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">People that we see to this day.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He wrote with reason.</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Looking again say at the character of Antonio, </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>true he was generous and aided friends where he knew they needed it, </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>even in a position where he couldn't. </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>He has some virtues. </b></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2014</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>However </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>when he was redeemed </b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>and saved in court </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>from the increasing anger of Shylock, </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>partially caused by his own lack of charity, </b></span></div>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>his actions of accepting one half of his goods and demanding Shylock to become a Christian may have proved superficial . . .</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>"Presently becoming a Christian"</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>came to Shylock by force</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>not by choosing </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>in response to received mercy and love</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>out of his own free will . . .</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>and the receiving of the letter informing Antonio of his ships arriving safely to Venice at the end of the play, proved not so much a quick penning from the Bard to create a happy ending, but rather making Antonio no better than how he behaved before and lacked that acknowledgement and gratitude to pass that same mercy to his enemy. </b></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2014</i><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>That letter proved undeserving next to his previous actions in court towards Shylock.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>He was just as business-minded (and somewhat materialistic) as Shylock was: </b></span></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><u><span style="color: #444444;">ANTONIO</span></u></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>He seeks my life; his reason well I know:</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>I oft deliver'd from his forfeitures</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Many that have at times made moan to me:</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Therefore he hates me.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><u>DIANDRA</u></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>It's way beyond liberating forfeitures Antonio. </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Shylock was a victim of his own hate </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>that increased at each ounce of enmity he received, </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>including from you. </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>You didn't regret earlier cursing</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>and spitting on him </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>nor denied to do so again in future.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>He was just as weak as you.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>A man most vulnerable by prejudice -</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>who could understand that more than you </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>in that court room?</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Your generosity was limited by your own prejudice</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Charity falls on all just as much as mercy. . .</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>a</b></span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">nd we can't ignore the possibility </b></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">that Portia's Mercy Speech </span></b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">acted also </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">as generally <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siY_iIkicEQ&list=UUxgJN4CAXV9e4nEOcxqGdTg" target="_blank">guiding</a> and </b><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>acknowledging</b></span></span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">every single person </span></b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">of the vulnerability they and we all would face:</span></b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="color: #444444;">That in the course of justice</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>We do pray for mercy</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><span style="color: #444444;">and</span> <span style="color: #cc0000;">that same prayer</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">doth teach us all to </span><span style="color: orange;">render</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">the deeds of mercy</span>.</i></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Portia had her own flaws too. </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Some audiences love her, some don't. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Yet she stands out in my eyes to be the one</b></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b> redeemed from certain characteristics that made her (and seem like) a-spoilt-little-rich-girl, by receiving the true love she wished to be more worthier for, and yet has humbly gained it. </b></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2014</i><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Out of love for Bassanio, she uses her intelligence and understanding of logic (like father like daughter) to be an instrument and voice of guidance to mercy, victory and humility (for Shylock in his case) </b></span><br />
<b style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">in a courtroom . . .</b><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>where the language and behaviour </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>of such a surrounding </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>is all law, </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>blind to the human being standing before them </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>calling them one term or other that lacked distribution of dignity & mercy. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>and take note how nearly every character mentions one type or other of people: </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>from two-faced Janus (Act 1 Scene 1, ll 50-56) </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJCLu5szy_0" target="_blank">Shylock's speech</a>; from</b></span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> tedious suitors </b><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to fellows who speak an infinite deal of nothing.</b></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">The third time participating in the MADC One Acts Festival (second time as director) proved itself to be more fruitful, working with more confidence, as the overall rehearsal process was absolutely void of the notion of competition behind the Festival. </span></b><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2014</i></div>
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Focused solely on bringing into existence </span><i><span style="color: #76a5af;">Adam u Eva</span></i><span style="color: #444444;">, a Maltese play written by Guze' Aquilina. A play I found in a collected book of one act plays that, according to Aquilina, was never performed.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I chose it from March this year; the earlier the better to see and create the vision. It was tedious work editing and cutting down the script to the time limit of 30 minutes, aside the fact that the play itself without the editing was frustratingly repetitive and would have completely side-tracked attention from the playwright's poetry. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I worked on dabbling first time with surrealism, a style the story was calling to be staged & bring to presence. With a full and determined cast at the ready also, unlike the first time. A whole month meant to rehearse two years ago was a prolonged audition session. Nightmare.</span></b></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2014</i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>We worked as a team, one encouraging the other, with a few laughs here and there. The best compliment I got from my fellow actors was how much they enjoyed themselves in both nights, and willingly agreed at the possibility of staging it again, whatever the resulting feedback would be. No care towards walking out of the Clubhouse without an award whatsoever.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To sum it up . . . the general feedback we got? </span></b></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2014</i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Absolutely exhilarating. </span></b></span><b style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Will stage it again in future - defo!!!</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And to top it off, we walked away with 3 awards and 2 nominations!! </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The awards - again - were never important, but to be focused on creating theatre and learning along the way was what made the surprise more rewarding. </span></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">For at the end of the day, when we actors and directors step in a theatre for rehearsals and production nights, it's not people's approval that gives the satisfaction, nor the anticipation of a good review by the critics (whose perspectives are always different from the directors, </span><i style="color: #444444;">unless</i><span style="color: #444444;"> within reason), but the journey of creating with people, to finally reach to the destination of presenting art. Always serving God from the start to curtain call, and acknowledging Him as the Divine Playwright and Director of the plays being done together.</span></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: #b45f06;">Interview with Marc Cabourdin </span></i></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US">Primarily two things: first of all it’s
community theatre - something I do and enjoy doing, so the narrative and my focus
has been social commentary. Why <i>Innocent
Flesh</i>, because for the past eighteen months I’ve been doing work with
migrants. I’ve been looking at human trafficking from that kind of aspect, so
when I was given the opportunity to talk about human trafficking but from that
layer of sex trafficking, that made it an ideal play to take on and get to
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Aside the fact that
Wesley Ellul was the one who presented the script to you that brought it on . .
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<span lang="EN-US">Wesley and I work together. The formula we try
to stick and keep doing for the first time and for the first year is to create
theatre, and to re-create a company that’s not just say comedy. It’s finally a
model where you have the piece that can bring in the money, and when one does
that, you have before you your artistic piece and your community piece, and <i>Innocent Flesh</i> was the community piece,
as simple as that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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did you manage to develop the play onto the stage? When you read it did you
envision it? Was it a developing process that came along in participation with
the actresses?</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></i><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Yes, you read the play many a times, and you
study it; you know it and you know it inside out, and before you actually get
to read it with the actors you have a beautiful vision. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I am a firm believer of creating a piece
organically, and that the starting point of every actor in developing a story
starts from <b>the self</b>. What happens
then is it changes, so what you do is you play upon the strengths and the
weaknesses of the characters and the actors you have. So what you would have
tuned is leaning to the self, because if we were to present it with a different
set of actors, the piece would change dramatically. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I always go about starting from the self. The
process used when we first started rehearsals for the first few weeks was very
much first studying the self rather than the characters. We asked questions of
ourselves, saw the places in our lives as a teenager where maybe there was a
moment where life could have taken us onto a different path, and when we found
that moment we were able to invest into the characters that were in <i>Innocent Flesh</i>.<o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Remember, <i>Innocent
Flesh</i> was nearly partly a piece of theatre. When Kenyetta had written it,
the text - the words were very much the true words of the girls she had actually
encountered and worked with. We had to create that value of reality and what I
call the <b>‘currency of truth’</b>, what
is the currency we were using. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In order to allow the people to be invested in
it and to have the spectator engaged, first we needed them to see that these
are real people. Hence to start off from a real person you have to start from
yourself, and that is the value the actors actually found, discovered and
nurtured throughout the process of the piece: how to be real. Not to be
performers, not to be entertainers, not to be re-enactors but how to be
artists; to be actors – to be anthropologically correct, to be journalists. The
system we use is starting off by playing games, the game of objects that
Stanislavski speaks about, to discover our truth.<o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The theatre is not life; it is <b>life as it ought to be</b>. You take it so
much higher, it’s got to be up there all the time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US">I noticed in the production
that there were patterns of </span>provocative-ness</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> to innocence to each
girl telling her story. How did you bring into action this </span>synchronisation</i></b></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>? Did the script help you in some way?</b></span></span></i> <span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The thing is, it was because the people are organic.
When you are starting on very strong foundations and you invest in the time, in
the people and in what their story is, in what their objective is, when you
have the four different actors talking about them, talking on, telling us their
story and not just telling us but <i>driving</i>
- because that’s what it means, to drive the story, the richness of such a piece
is for it to be very indulgent. So it could be all about like, “Oh look at me. I’m
a poor prostitute and my mummy doesn’t love me and I want to go back home”, and
that would have been polished. That would have otherwise been your regular teen
soap opera, you know - ‘dramm’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">What allowed for those images you just spoke of was the fact that we always played, and technically speaking it’s
a little incorrect to say this, but we always went against the ‘vain’ of the
text. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">One of the tricks we used, let’s just say if in
one of the scenes it’s read as though one of the girls is in pain, we played
against the pain. So what we did is like, “Ok, there’s pain. We’ve got to cover
it up with </span>humour<span lang="EN-US">”. And
that is how those vignettes started getting created, because then what happens
is that when you see something truthful happening – and also do remember what
an artist does is primarily holding up a mirror, saying ‘this is what I’m
seeing’. When the actors gave me what they were giving me that is what you then
start creating. In that sense, as much as it was scripted, the beauty of an
organic piece is that I take lots of lightness into changing things around, and
that is only because I use its strengths <i>and</i>
weaknesses. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">A lot of time, especially in the Maltese scene,
if you don’t speak in a particular way, if you don’t stand in a particular way,
they’re considered weaknesses. But they’re not. That’s human. They’re frailties
that make you true, rather truthful. You play with that. You try not to hide
it, you know? You try and hide a big hole in the wall you’re just going to make
a mess of it. You just expose the wall, and turn it into a piece of art and
say, “no I wanted that hole there”; give it its relevance and to just not shy
away from it. Just go with it, be bold. You’ve got to be bold, not be shy of it
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<span lang="EN-US">You start from the self. We still do not know
or I may be generalizing, but a lot of people think because you sing and dance
and you do something like this you’re an actor. But no – one has to understand
that this is between a performer, an entertainer and an actor. That’s <i>three </i>different elements altogether;
it’s like you’re talking of a musician, a painter and a singer, they are three
distinct disciplinary arts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">With <i>Innocent
Flesh</i> what I would like to think is that it does climb one more round
towards being an actor. So that is what we used and brought up; it’s the
actor-artist apart from himself. It started from there, it’s what we used. And
then yes we started creating bits of variables of the text. In the sense, being
a play and being in a play, we are allowed to do things that in life we’re not
allowed to do, hence referring previously to playing and boldness.<o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Starting from that, if I had to be faced with
such a situation and I wanted to go for broke, how would I face it out? What
are all the options? How would I drive that to its fullest? And that’s where we
picked it off. So it wasn’t from what are the rhythms of this or how do you
stand – no. Not all that, because if you're real it just happens.<o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>You made Candace and a
particular sub-character Maltese - but mostly Candace. Talk abit further about
that decision of making one of the characters local.</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">That was a decision I had taken previously,
even having held auditions. Ideally I wanted them to be four different voices,
to have four different nationalities.<o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I think actually with Candace that is an
example of what I was talking about before, especially in the English-speaking
theatre world. The idea is if the currency we’re dealing with is truth, and for
this you have plays in Malta who could expose the situation and the reality
that is alive in Malta, you could not have had anything but a Maltese girl
there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Anything less would have been rubbish; would
have not been real. So Candace specifically was made to be that from the very
beginning and I wanted to have a Maltese-speaking actor, rather than an English
speaking actor speaking Maltese. That was a very specific decision. I tried
looking for different ethnicities, but it was very hard to come by. They didn’t
turn up for the auditions.<o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We did our
research - anything less is not art. Hence it is why we worked with the <b><i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Womens-Rights-Foundation/352671194861746" target="_blank">Women’s Rights Foundation</a></i></b>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span><i style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Proving human
trafficking is</b></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>not some sort of a
myth, <o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>not something only
found in movies. <o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>It’s there. <o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>It’s real.</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Of course – absolutely! There’s a lot of
information, even if you want to scratch the surface. You understand and </span>realise<span lang="EN-US"> that the stories that were put up
during <i>Innocent Flesh </i>are actually
truthful. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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remember when I started reading the script,<o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Well, is it relevant to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Malta</st1:place></st1:country-region>?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Then you </span>realise<span lang="EN-US"> . . .<o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">What’s written and true to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">L.A.</st1:city></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">it’s true to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Rome</st1:city></st1:place>, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">it’s true to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Moscow</st1:city></st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">These stories happen the world around.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It’s a modern day reality <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">the socio-economical-political reality <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">that we face with, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">what’s been happening these past 10, 12 years<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">unfortunately,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>What do you personally
think is the main factor that drives and keeps human trafficking striving on
today? –</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></i><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Money. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It’s a 1.5 billion dollar industry. Globally. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It’s about
making money off people; something that has been going on forever. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to primarily just that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Money to be
made off the living. It’s something that somebody wants to buy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Money and
Lust. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>How do you think we
individually need to stop this?</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To say “to stop” is a very finite statement. Unfortunately
I don’t think it’s ever that easy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">But what one can start doing is something very
simple: using art to expose. That is what the artist does. The artist is not
there to judge or to justify, but to say, “Look, this is how things are”. As a
result, when you meet people like <i>Innocent
Flesh</i>, you might pick somebody to actually start thinking about it and reflect
about the person, their situation and their background.<o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">A lot of times these girls do it willingly.
These boys do it willingly too. But one has to see where it’s coming from.<o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It’s a chicken-and-egg situation. What do you
stop – the victim or the perpetrator? Who is actually the victim and who is
truly the perpetrator? It’s like saying ‘how do I stop crime’.<o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">With human trafficking per se, it’s about
keeping your ears open, keeping your eyes open; not dismiss it and not thinking
that this thing never happened.<o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">On my director’s notes of <i>Innocent Flesh </i>I placed the quote, “not in my backyard”; yet you
can be surprised. There was a situation, over a year ago, there were girls kept
as/by criminals in a flat in Paceville. We’re not talking about in the middle
of a desert here. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Can it be stopped – I don’t know. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Should we stop it – of course
absolutely!<o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">But I think the most
important thing to do is allow people to be aware of the situation without
judging. Without passing any </span>judgement, without saying what is and what
is not, but just tell them, “listen, this is what’s happening”. And then people
will make their own mind up.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><i><a href="http://www.sundaycircle.com/2013/11/not-for-sale/" target="_blank">'NOT FOR SALE'</a></i></b> - Philip Leone-Ganado's article on human trafficking in SundayCircle.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">SUPPORT Chris Dingli's project <i>Palermo</i> - <b><u><a href="http://palermoshortfilm.com/" target="_blank">Palermo Team Website</a></u></b></span></div>
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How <i>Palermo </i>came to be - <b><u><a href="http://palermoshortfilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Palermo-Film-Treatment-2013.pdf" target="_blank">Film Treatment</a></u></b></div>
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<b><u><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUyPrDhSUzM" target="_blank">Mira Sorvino's Speech</a></u></b> against Trafficking</div>
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<i><u>Few films worth watching:</u> </i></div>
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- <b><u><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AzHRnJV_WY" target="_blank">'Human Trafficking'</a></u></b> starring Mira Sorvino & Donald Sutherland (<b><u><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/justiceforyouth/search?query=human+trafficking" target="_blank">Trailer</a></u></b>)</div>
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- <b><u><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbwRapQMFSU" target="_blank">'Trade'</a></u></b> starring Kevin Kline</div>
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<b>- <u><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql9vj11U40k" target="_blank">'Sex Traffic'</a></u></b> starring John Simm<br />
'Watching <i>Sex Traffic </i>is not a horrible experience because it works well as a thriller<br />
so it's exciting and you are always gunning for the good guys - but you can't escape<br />
the fact that it's a depressing subject matter". John Simm</div>
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<u><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Director’s Note to <i>Innocent Flesh</i>:
“Not in my backyard!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Surprisingly enough it is
not as uncommon as we think. Paraphrasing Dr. Lara Sciberras, of the Woman’s
Rights Foundation, “there is more of them than there is of us”. What did she mean?
Our first conversation leant towards the socio economic reality of girls and
families that find themselves in dire situations and resort to the oldest job
in the world. But there is more to it than that.<o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is very easy for the
bourgeois class to tut in disapproval and turn their heads in shock horror. The
truth is that the sex trade is worth 31.5 billion dollars globally. Let us not
fool ourselves that sex trafficking and slavery is alien to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Malta</st1:place></st1:country-region>. The 4
stories you’re about to witness are very real and very much true.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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first reaction was to think that the piece was not <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Malta</st1:place></st1:country-region> centric enough, but with
research, investigation and analysis, you </span>realise<span lang="EN-US"> that these
stories are the same the world over. More pertinently these girls and their
stories are a very modern day Maltese reality.<o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We all know of the street
in Gzira, but there is more to it than that. It is very ‘comforting’ to think
that that is our only reality. Yet we have all heard of a salon or of a guest
house or of a flat or of a club . . . but as an island nation we are happy to
not think too much about it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">“What? Girls kept prisoners
in a flat in </span><span lang="MT">Paceville</span><span lang="EN-US">? As if . . . How’s that possible? U </span><span lang="MT">ajma</span><span lang="EN-US"> can’t they just run away?”
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It does not take much, to
really see what is happening in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Malta</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
and there is so much more that we are blind and oblivious to.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the 4 young actors
playing these girls, it wasn’t as daunting or as far-fetched, as they had the
will and daring to invest fully into their characters. The process of the piece
revolved around their own personal journeys as teenagers. In the back of the
cupboard of one’s emotional lock up, one always finds a moment were an event
was the catalyst for a choice and a new path trodden.<o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are not here to justify,
judge or comment on the truth. We are simply exposing it. As an artist it is my
duty to hold up a mirror to society, and in turn let is bask in its glory, or
balk at its failures.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Technically the piece reads
very much like a radio play, with its rich eloquent text, and theatrically it
is great work and a pleasure to devise the moments and vignettes that you will
see develop in front of you. The design and aesthetic of the piece mirrors and
juxtaposes the inner thoughts of the girls and drives the action and narrative
poetically.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Simone brought all of themselves. They come together as a chorus, they break
way in to their respective roles and they mirror each other’s character’s
journey. Their generosity, focus and specificity have allowed me to shape up
the piece for the theatre in its purest form.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> To read Part 1 click <u><b><i><a href="http://art-encounters.blogspot.com/2014/03/exposed-innocent-flesh-part-1.html">here</a></i></b></u></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #cc0000;">on Saturday 15th March </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #cc0000;">MITP Theatre, Valletta</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>of 'Divergent Thinkers' at St James Cavalier in 2013</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US">What inclined you to sign up and participate in the </span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-US">Divergent Thinkers<i> <u><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=684285071583903&set=pb.676239509055126.-2207520000.1388762356.&type=3&theater" target="_blank">exhibition</a></u> this year?</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">I was doing my final examinations and came across the call for proposals and found it a perfect beginning into my precarious university-free future. I took the application as an opportunity to take on video further from my natural style, photography and display it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibfeElxYCms" target="_blank">One of your three</a> videos in your presentation had shown two people playing around with a decapitated swordfish.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #674ea7;">The swordfish is more of an anatomy lesson; it's two people freely exploring the anatomy of the creature.</span></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You were recording how the two people were reacting with the fish head, playing around with its gauged-out eyes.</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It was mostly genuine fascination with the anatomy of the fish that I was also involved with as I was filming the eyes closely.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I wanted to construct a space in which I could get as many interesting angles as possible so that I could extract still images from them. That was initially my proposal and how I started out, as from my personal experience subjects tend to be more 'restricted' into posing when it comes to photography and they would act more freely when it comes to film as they wouldn't be waiting for the shutter to click.<o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So the divergence would be where the film takes me and I'd have an endless list of choices for frozen moments that could be then used as still images. Then I wanted to see what kind of videos I'd make. I wanted to use people and I wanted the element of performance art to be present as I am very much interested in exploring it. So as for videos one and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk7YTqBBNfs" target="_blank"><i>three</i></a> I 'constructed' a space (with mirrors and other props) for the subjects to engage within and I would take the stance of a voyeur in that case.<o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You're a photographer taking on moving images, demonstrating to still create messages in a way through a second medium, while maintaining your point of view as a photographer.</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #674ea7;">This exhibition is like a transition from photography to film. I see much more power and potential of a more immersive atmosphere in the moving image. Even during the opening night people's eyes were glued to the screen whether they wanted to or not. We grew up in the presence of TV and cinema where we'd give our attention to the moving images on the screen so such an act is practically instinctive. <o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US">In this degree even the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9sNw0ZtVXQ" target="_blank">second video</a>, where the two people were putting random objects on each other near a beach, was a form of transition to film where they would have just posed with the stuff on top of them in any intructed angle. </span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US">Can it be said then that you were in the stance of a photographer with the instrument of a film-maker? I had been drawn to the screen, but because there was no story or character it made me feel like I was looking at the behind the scenes of a photographic session.</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #674ea7;">Indeed, the videos lack a story or main character...it is a documentation of a happening between 2-3 people, within a period of time, and the potential that can come out of it when there is an explorative attitude. The second video shows a person constructing using the available resources on top of another person...the act of constructing is a very human quality and could be linked to more primitive times- people building things to make them look prettier, make them feel more sheltered, make them feel busy. not to mention the attitude of 'doing for the sake of doing'.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #674ea7;">The writings on the wall are pre-production sketches and write-ups of what happened.</span></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then is it correct for me to say that you were not only displaying human reactions in your volunteers in the situations being placed to them, but also bringing them out aswell in those viewing them?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #674ea7;">Indeed, this is why my videos could be seen as documentative. <o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Your divergence can be seen in taking your background as a photographer and draw what you normally see and experience into the medium of film.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It could also be seen in the fact that my videos are unscripted so divergence is very much present there.</span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As a photographer solely, what can you say is your most used and recognised theme when taking photos?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Chance . . . can you elaborate further on that? One example I can think of in link to the theme would be your <a href="http://500px.com/photo/33444025" target="_blank">peacock photo</a>, how in that one shot you managed to get the bird in a precise distinct angle half-hidden behind the tree, without taking the platitude action of presenting a typical full view going 'this is what it is'.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #674ea7;">Well one could take the title of my exhibition piece which was 'flee tin gly'- life is fleeting (sounds familiar?) and every photograph is one of the many fleeting moments in our lives.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What about the photos with you near nature? Be it near the sea or in your garden.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The passageway entrance at the end of the ascension opened us up to darkness. Lined up in red lighting, darkly illuminated were four girls, dressed provocatively, incarcerated within three miniature glass prisons, attempting to move in time to harsh rock music; the key chorus to Marilyn Manson's take on Eurythmics' <i>Sweet Dreams</i>, its high pitches raucously scraping, bombarding and bashing heavily against the walls in the midst of this scene, like an incensed behemoth.</span></b><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A modern day exposure of Hell, and we were latter-day Dante-ian bystanders looking on this momentary sight as we passed them, guarded by their pimp, to go watch their 'show'.</span></b><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nothing is more powerful than the aesthetic medium of theatre in the act of presenting truth, and nothing moved me more greatly to an internal state of heart-wrenching pity and guilt as TAC Theatre's performance of Kenyetta Lethridge's play <i>Innocent Flesh</i> on their first performance in November.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Raped of all that gives definition of what illustrates their personal dignity, their characters stood as ambassadors of the unwanted and the unloved, and their performance motivated me halfway to want to stand up from my seat, go to the performance area, (forgetting entirely it was a performance), embrace them as long-lost sisters, and then get them all the heck out of there, never mind their macho 'caretaker' being on watch.</b></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Reverberations of the language and mannerisms of every global and local <i><a href="http://www.theinspiration.com/2012/04/girls-going-wild-in-red-light-district-by-duval-guillaume-modem/" target="_blank">red-light district</a></i> made manifest in these girls, in interval sessions of provocative display, before each girl told their tale of their conclusive state of self-usury. In carefully planned synchronisation, each girl got to tell their own story, reflecting their individual personalities, supported by the other girls as sub-characters, to recreate and invoke vividly (nothing withheld) their flashbacks onto the stage and manifesting their characters all the more. Proving that they were not simply 'one of many' but <i>'one of a kind'</i>, a revelation rarely given in their lives and inhibited from receiving in every 'sexual service' they are giving.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The director, Marc Cabourdin, took the original and realistic approach of proving these sad constant cases to be nestling happily on our own islands, through the revelation of Simone's character <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=650494398314393&set=pb.193514717345699.-2207520000.1389103884.&type=3&theater" target="_blank">Candace</a> (and a sub-character of a 'client' police officer off-duty if memory serves me well) to be Maltese.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>One tale from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=653305941366572&set=gm.180874022102810&type=1&theater" target="_blank">Danna</a> (Tina's girl) punched out of me a loud exclamation of shock, as she casually recalled one 'client' remarking her resemblance to his own teenage daughter, an empty vessel void of masculinity as a man, husband and father.</b></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>The sub-characters submitted into the performance a reflection of society today; their accusers, their victimizers, figures that edged them further into the contraption that now formed their cage.</b></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Their conversions on an umpteenth abortion, a girl-fight over a client's attention, and violence, treated and expressed as normally as a discussion over a teenage magazine article.</b></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>We watched all this, till <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=649336415096858&set=gm.177878812402331&type=1&theater" target="_blank">"Lupita"</a>, "Danna", "Candace" and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=655181337845699&set=gm.182441921946020&type=1&theater" target="_blank">"Lisa"</a>, in the midst of a slow blackout, struggled in a whisper . . .</b></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I had been so preoccupied on the most futile things that I realised I stopped fighting entirely against human trafficking, a cause I advocated so strongly against.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>"We are not here to justify, judge or comment on the truth. We are simply exposing it. As an artist it is my duty to hold up a mirror to society, and in turn let it bask in its glory, or balk at its failures". Marc Cabourdin</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Seeing the play made me realise also, as we were all seated there, that we were likewise taking part in that production, not just as expressing awareness to human trafficking but also by presenting ourselves as a community, passively and actively, allowing this to happen.</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>in <b><a href="http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140109/local/Womens-misery-as-nude-selfies-are-shared-online.501903#.UuaU7dI1jDc" target="_blank">self-slavery</a></b></i></span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>to the whining</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>We may not be the ones physically pushing girls and young women into the hands of perverted 'caretakers' and oversexed 'clients' - but we cannot deny that it is in the mantra of society of over-sexing every single thing that comes up in our lives, that has led every woman and <b><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/14/china-baby-trafficking-doctor-sentenced" target="_blank">child</a></b> part of the sex trade - into the way of their victimisers, who are weak in their minds, and void of true masculinity - among men - by this constant promiscuity, misuse of sex and casualness towards sex.</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Makes one feel like we need to echo an obnoxious, badly written sitcom</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>"The world is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KR5O4sZwA8">dry</a> not for lack of wonders, </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Casualness and misuse of sex has led many to a state of self-censorship; to living a false philosophy that censors the beauty within every man and woman, be it 'experimenting', hook-ups, friends with benefits, drunk one night stands, scheduled night ins just to sleep around, amplifying a "conventional" mentality entirely surrounding sex in its perverted form.</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>It's heartbreaking to encounter and know these people doing this; seeing them not realise they are worth more, (that they ought to treat themselves and) to be treated as more in recognition of their own personal worth, and can show more without stamping biased-ness on what they see as <a href="http://chastityproject.com/2014/03/ignore-what-the-world-says-about-virginity/" target="_blank">restrictive</a>, ('religious' on the matter of chastity) and unhindered.</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Real hindered-ness is this very constant perverted action and thought itself</i></span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Apparently someone being <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRTcod83PYI" target="_blank">genuine</a> and expressing chivalry and respect (as a response) to the opposite sex is more complicated to the world than hook-ups. Feels so frustrating to be genuine when constantly concluded as "prude".</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>When this oversexed philosophy still lives, and is still practiced, so does this global attack on human dignity, spreading human trafficking all the more in the minds of pimps and victims - </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Deny it if you dare.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>"The love of the untried is truly the love of nothing"</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I went to bed . . . Stared at the ceiling . . .</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>"I am free. I have Freedom to be in a warm bed. I have freedom to walk and roam around this house. I have freedom to leave the lamp lit a while longer . . . And yet right now, my other sisters - siblings - are still trapped, and inhibited of such 'minor luxuries' ".</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>We're neglecting them of the truth and freedom that's just as rightfully theirs.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>"They are robbed of their God-given freedom. I can relate</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>and true love and beauty can be gained,</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>made mine,</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>and willing to give to those who don't realise that they DO deserve".</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>(Musing on)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>. . . . .</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>CENTRE SPOTLIGHT -</i></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In a society based on human authority, (where we solely define what is good and bad to satisfy ourselves) where is that true reverential response and act to gain and receive love by who they are, not by what they do?</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We've all heard of YOLO . . . have any of us ever considered shouting YODO as our mantra?</span></i></b><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dear Gentlemen, </span></i></b><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What is true manhood?</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Is it the act of censorship upon yourselves</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">by following a mindless</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">unsatisfied</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">counterfeit</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'conventional' set of 'rules'</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that inhibits you from showing your unique qualities and strengths?</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Does this 'active lifestyle' allow you to show your full identity as special, uncommon men, or does it place you under a category </span></i></b><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">based on the same mentality,</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the same attitude,</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the same actions</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that Femen would gladly and triumphantly point their fingers at and call you anything but human?</span></i></b><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Giving them 'reason' to prove men's lack of worth, when it's in actual fact the censoring of worth (promoted) by the masses?</span></i></b><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When using a woman to silence your inferior sexual whims, don't you see you</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">are being used too? Even in the process of allowing both of you</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to edge the lie</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">further in your actions and lives?</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When will the most promiscuous man see that what defines true masculinity is not the lie of 'how good they are in bed', but by the Truth of what forms their hearts and souls?</span></i></b><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When will you let us women, who have good intentions, treat you with</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">rightful respect and try to win your heart as a response that you <u>have</u> worth,</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that you are worthy of our time?</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When will you chuck these inferior shackles aside</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that's binding you and blinding you,</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and let us freely acknowledge you as the better men we know you are</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and you can show yourselves to be?</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Where is that demand to be treated too as an equal, not as an object measured by one's 'sexual stimuli' and genitals?</span></i></b><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Don't you wish to be remember by your unique qualities</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that's sadly never placed on a pedestal,</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">or do you expect us to believe</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">you want to be commemorated</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013 </i><b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">by the size of your genitals? . . .</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ladies, why define 'experimentation' as placing yourselves as objects AND userers?</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Folks . . .</span></i></b><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Let's be honest.</span></i></b><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Society's definition of being a 'free spirit' is really stamped slavery.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This casualness towards sex is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRJ_QfP2mhU">dependency unsatisfied</a>.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can boast all you want of doing this position and that for pleasure, it's still . . . blooming . . . sex.</span></i></b><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>I say this with love.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>You inhibit yourself of respectfully treating the other person and of taking on a genuine, creative initiative of doing something together - based on real love. You don't even challenge yourselves of how to win him or her over to acknowledge that other <u>as one of a kind</u>, not one of many.</i></b></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-align: left;"><b><i>Nor take on the challenge of improving and shining on that goodness that makes you unique. </i></b></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>Copyright </i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"><i>©</i></span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Diandra A. 2013</i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Stop censoring yourselves!!</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Constant misuse of sex is making guys and girls boring </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>- and bored.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>"Every high civilisation </i></b></span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>decays</i></b></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>by forgetting obvious things. </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Our generation in a dirty pessimistic period,</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>has blasphemously underrated</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>the beauty of life</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>and cravenly overrated</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>It's also trapping the souls of our four siblings, seen in </i>Innocent Flesh, <i>further into those four claustrophobic walls that sadly isn't the Vault theatre.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Just as the Holocaust physically entrapped victims, by weak individuals led on by a false philosophy, so does this modern holocaust entrap us mentally and actively in our lives, and constant promiscuity and casual sex encourage the weak 'pervs', 'clients' & 'pimps' and defenseless 'products' into the kind of eternal Hell on earth witnessed by us Dante-ian protagonists.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><i><b>Ever since creating this blog, </b></i></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><i><b>I found & foresee it </b></i></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><i><b>to be a very useful, </b></i></i></span><i style="color: #45818e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>personal instrument. </b></i></i></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>From now on </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>it's possible for me</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><i><b>to grasp opportunities </b></i></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><i><b>in contacting theatre people </b></i></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><i><b>and plan discussion dates with them. </b></i></i></span></div>
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<i style="color: #45818e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>Without A.E. I would not have been able to take that action, and remained stuck in simply leaving </b></i></i><i style="color: #45818e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>an exhibition clueless, or </b></i></i><i style="color: #45818e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>a theatre production passing short polite congrats to the director.</b></i></i></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b>resulting in future knowledge, </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b>Psyched big time!!</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b>I have lately been facing difficulty by this blogging service </b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b>becoming quite a headache in truth.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b>So until I find some sort of solution to this hiccup, please bear with me and the plain-ness of some of the next posts:</b></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">LATEST SEGMENT</span><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> to <i>Artistic Encounters</i>: </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Promoting new talent entitled </span><i><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"<u>Calling to the Stage</u>"</span></i></b><br />
<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>by bringing forth </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>currently </b></span><b style="color: #45818e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">facing difficulty </b><br />
<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>in promoting themselves as artists, </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>in a sort of </b></span><b style="color: #45818e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'backstage period'. </b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b><span style="color: #45818e;">FIRST SEGMENTS </span></b></i></span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #45818e;">- Short Chat with photographer </span><u><span style="color: #b45f06;"><a href="http://www.stephaniesant.com/" target="_blank">Stephanie Sant</a></span></u><span style="color: #45818e;"> on her participation in Divergent Thinkers</span></b></i><br />
<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i> - Introducing <u><a href="https://www.facebook.com/BreathebyClaire" target="_blank">Claire Farrugia</a></u>'s 'breathing' works of art</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Wishing a blessed Merry Christmas </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>and a fruitful New Year!</i></b></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-782283739146015495.post-86383263397369541222013-10-18T05:20:00.001-07:002013-10-18T05:29:35.663-07:00A Debut Salute<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>17th October 2013</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>"I've wanted to make this blog for quite some time, primarily meant to promote myself as an actor. Then events occurred that made me take a particular work, place it here and then later expand this cyber workspace with other writings that echo characteristics and similar themes of this article.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The whole experience prior to this action has inspired me to want to meet other people in the theatre circle & other artists of sorts, and turn each meeting into a learning experience. As well as bring about debate and Socratic questioning where it's needed and share it out.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Every encounter brings new perspective, whether it results in agreement or disagreement, be it with public practitioner or talented friends; taking numerous opportunities also to express my own thoughts along the road - why not?</i></span><i style="color: #45818e; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"</i></div>
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