Talk-thirty-to-me - Mellow Drama - Arts and Theatrical Productions Malta

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Venue:

MITP, Old University Theatre Show Map

Shows:

Friday, 03 Dec, 2010
Saturday, 04 Dec, 2010
Sunday, 05 Dec, 2010
Friday, 10 Dec, 2010
Saturday, 11 Dec, 2010
Saturday, 11 Dec, 2010
Sunday, 12 Dec, 2010

Prices:

Opening Weekend	€10
All Other weekends	€15

Tickets From:

Online: Ticketline.com.mt
Phone:+356 2789 2789

Video:

Talk Thirty To Me
By Oonagh Duncan
Directed By Wesley Ellul

03 Dec. 10 - 12 Dec. 10

Mellow Drama Presents the Follow-up to the Hit Play "MY FIRST TIME!" -

Ooghna Duncan's "Talk Thirty To me"

In 2010 approximately 57,000,000 people on earth will turn thirty.

Kendra, Vanessa, Darren, John, Tim, Ben, Mira and Sam are eight people and are being interviewed about it.

In general, they feel great about turning thirty. As Vanessa points out, "Anyone stressing about age is silly, it's the most inevitable thing in the world". And besides—they are all way too busy to worry about age and status quo.

Except that:

- Darren was supposed to be a movie star by now

- Mira escaped the war in Yugoslavia but can't stop thinking about the other thirtysomethings out drinking martini's at posh clubs.

- Ben has £.71 in his bank account

- Kendra just left her husband for a woman

- Sam doesn't want to stop partying

- Vanessa forgot to date in her twenties

- Tim wishes someone would punch him in the face until he gets some sense knocked into him.

- Jake is just going to move to Indonesia

In Talk Thirty to Me , the characters feel their clock ticking as they examine how they measure up at the age of unquestionable adulthood. They discuss the legacy of the boomers, looking for love on the internet, the biological clock, student debt, cellulite…and death.

Every word in Talk Thirty to Me is verbatim, based on over 100 hours of recorded interviews with 29 year olds, proving that the truth is stranger-and funnier-than fiction.

Opening Weekend 3rd - 5th December 2010
And final weekend 10th - 12th December 2010

Tickets:
Opening Weekend - €10
All other shows - €15

Starring:

Alexandra Camilleri Warne - Alexandra has been acting since the age of 12 and has already played principal girl in no less than four pantos, the latest being that of Wendy in last year’s MADC panto-‘Peter Panto’. Her training at Stagecoach lead Alexandra to appear as Addaperle and Glinda in FM productions’ ‘The Wiz’. She took part in several MADC One Act Play Festivals where she was twice nominated for the ‘Best Actress Award’. She has also played leading lady Janet Weiss in ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ after which she took a break during her final year at university from where she graduated as a Doctor of Medicine and Surgery. She got back onto the scene with her first production with Mellow Drama-the successful ‘My First Time’. Her latest role was that of Priscilla in Death of a Doornail by MADC. Alexandra has also dabbled into TV playing Haley in ‘Dejjem Tieghek Becky’ and Rebekka in ‘Tghanniqa’ for which she was nominated for ‘Best Actress’ at the Malta TV Awards. She is currently working on One TV’s ‘Kwazi Ahwa’ where she plays the character of Jill.

Jan Zammit - Jan pursued his dream of becoming a professional dancer at the tender age of 9, which made him one of the first boy dancers in the local scene at that time. His debut stage appearance was as the young Pied Piper in Era (1998). This was followed by numerous shows with yada including ‘Century ‘(1999), ‘Phantom’ (2000), ‘Dirty Dancing’ (2001), ‘Madonna’ (2002) and ‘Christus’ (2004). Jan has also performed at a number of public shows and events such as the Millennium Celebrations in Floriana (2000) and the Small Nations Games opening ceremony at Ta’ Qali (2003). In the 2005 Pantomime ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Jan played multiple roles within the chorus, and in 2006 he played the part of a monkey with a bad attitude in Masquerade’s production of ‘Seussical – The Musical’. Jan then continued on to play the challenging role of ‘Nugget’ in Unifaun’s production of ‘Equus’. Talk Thirty to me Will be Jan's first production for Mellow Drama, which he has been itching to do for the past few years!

Julia Calvert -

Julia has always enjoyed acting and, from an early age showed signs of her future calling when locking her grandparents in a room and forcing them to watch her perform. She took this evident enthusiasm and fine tuned it in England where she studied theatre. Her roles on stage, both in the UK and Malta, have seen her tackle a huge variety of different types of theatre because, as she says, it’s always nice to try out different things. She proves this with her jump from the thespian stage with leading roles in Othello and Tempest to her dive into the more somber world of Six Character in Search of an Author and Medea. However, her love for comedy overrides all and she feels in her true element when on stage providing the audience with a good laugh. From Perfect Wedding to An Evening with Gary Lineker and from Kissing Sid James to The 39 Steps, Julia is most at home when bringing smiles to people’s faces.

Wesley Ellul - Wesley has been actively involved in the Maltese theatre scene for well over a decade, performing a variety of roles on stage and an even larger variety of roles of it, from sound engineer to artistic director of MADC. His acting exploits include a list of pantos, musicals, plays and one-acts that is far too long to mention here. Suffice it to say he has rarely turned down a part. In anything. Ever. In 2002 he moved into the directing scene winning the club's one-act play festival with Shakespeare's a Dick. Since then he has directed a wide variety of pieces from satirical pieces like Edward Albee's An American Dream to Robert Farquhar's Bad Jazz, to musical theatre pieces such as Spring Awakening: A New Musical! Most recently Wesley's has returned to his comic roots directing comedies for Mellow Drama including My First Time and the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s All the Great Books (Abridged). This will be Wesley's second acting role for Mellow Drama following the 2010 critically acclaimed comedy "Talk Thirty to Me"!