Date and Time:
Friday, 22nd October, 2021, 7.30pm
Sunday, 24th October, 2021, 5.30pm
Tuesday, 26th October, 2021, 7.30pm
Saturday, 30th October, 2021, 6.30pm
Friday, 5th November, 2021, 8.30pm

As another midsummer is approaching and the heatwave ignites random bonfires, the wind scatters the ashes on the remaining tree stumps, and in the glaring flames the charred forests magically sparkle, as if enchanted.

During the night, the heat is bearable. But no one sleeps, they venture out of their bunkers to admire the spectacle of flames. Walking on fire is an old ritual for cleansing – now it’s the new normal.

Created by choreographer Sergiu Matis for ŻfinMalta, this rendition of Shakespeare’s play adapts the themes of obsessive love, nature, and the mystical, to our time, bringing in the new themes of climate change, feminism, and the colonialist, capitalist west. In this Midsummer Night’s Dream no one laughs at trivial erotic turbulences anymore. What do we laugh at in the post- apocalypse?

Sergiu Matis is a Romanian choreographer living and working in Berlin.

FULL CAST / LINE UP / ARTIST-LIST

DIRECTOR & CHOREOGRAPHER: Sergiu Matis
VIDEOGRAPHY: Eusebio Aquilina
ORIGINAL SCORE: Antye Greie AGF
SET & COSTUME DESIGN: Romualdo Moretti
COSTUMES: Giulia Orsi
LIGHT DESIGN: Andrew Schembri, Late Interactive
PRODUCTION MANAGER: Moritz Zavan Stoeckle

DANCERS: Tara Dalli, Felix Deepen, Pearl Calleja, Matheiu Chabaneix-Amor, Ibai Jiminez Gorostizu-Orkaiztegi, Andrea Martín Albert, Keith Micallef, Nicola Micallef, Simon Riccardi-Zani, Amber Van Veen

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Paolo Mangiola
COMPANY PRODUCER: Nicole Bearman
EDUCATION & OUTREACH: Martina Zammit
ARTISTIC COORDINATOR: Anna Nowak
PR, MARKETING & DESIGN: Noċemuskata