1997 - Il- Kaxxa
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Written by: Simon Bartolo
Directed by: Simon Bartolo
Date: 18th, 19th, 25th, 26th October 1997
Venue: MITP
Performers: Loranne Vella, Russell Muscat, Victor Debono, Alan Fenech
Il-Kaxxa is a box of surprises,
inhabited by a small host of bizarre characters. There’s Mary De
Cadenza who has yet to make her acquaintance with taste. Her son, Xadin
De Cadenza, lives in a cage of his own device. He seems to have a fetish
for bananas and his cardboard box. Mary’s lover is the postman.
In his case, “post-man” seems to imply more than just a profession.
Can he really be a specimen of the successor of mankind? Finally there’s
Dr Frankalanza, who is not just a man of letters – he is also a
man of stamps. He is intent on his mission to discover what lies beyond
the horizon of homo sapiens, or man as we know him. Who or what will be
the post-man? A question that intrigues Dr Frankalanza who is drawn to
Xadin’s cardboard box for it might contain the solution.
All four characters are enclosed within the walls of Proverbs, the wisdom
of ages. He provides the rules by which to live and, in so doing, encloses
man in a seemingly secure box. When Proverbs is late to come in for the
second act, the characters can have fun, and let their imaginations run
wild…
Traditional Maltese farce meets
theatre of the absurd. Il-Kaxxa is a play in which Aleateia revisits the
genre of its first production, but also the roots of Maltese popular theatre.