APPUNTAMENTI (2019)

“With Appuntamenti, Spiteri has created an evergreen cast of characters whose very inadequacies make them relatable across decades. Spiteri’s pen stops short of turning them into ‘losers’ in the eyes of the audience. And, instead, they become simply ‘us’.” – Ramona Depares

Can 10 minutes and a random meeting change a person’s life? This is what the play’s six characters – three men and three women – ask themselves when one, very normal morning, each waits at a bus stop.

But as the bus drives by, picks up and lets people off, these characters will be tempted with possibilities that life might never present again. Only on this particular day, during these particular 10 minutes, they decide to do something about it.

Appuntamenti, which won first prize in the National Francis Ebejer playwriting competition in 2009, is being re-staged to mark its 10th anniversary and also to launch a new publication of two of Spiteri’s most popular plays – Appuntamenti and Repubblika Immakulata, which premiered on March 2019.

Language: Maltese

Director: Simone Spiteri

Performers: Kristjana Casha, Simone Spiteri, Michela Farrugia, Clint Chircop, Mark Mifsud and Jes Camilleri.

Photos by DrooRizz Photography