MATSEC IM Theatre and Performance case studies
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The MATSEC Intermediate Level award in Theatre and Performance is a Maltese post-secondary qualification for students who want a formal credential in theatre alongside other Intermediate subjects. It suits candidates considering further training in drama, performance or technical theatre, as well as those who want a structured, assessed grounding in the discipline. The MATSEC IM Theatre and Performance case studies are 5 cases and about 4,037 words.
1Reviving a 1972 Maltese Dockyard Drama
A youth theatre in Bormla, made up of fourteen actors aged 15–18, has been invited to a local heritage festival to present a 50-minute adaptation of a Maltese-language family drama first staged in 1972 at a workers' club. The published script has nine speaking roles, a single interior set, and a scene in which a radio news bulletin refers to an industrial dispute.
800 words, about 4 min2The Untranslatable Punchline
An amateur company in Sliema is preparing a Maltese translation of a French farce for a 180-seat proscenium theatre. The translated script runs 2 hours 35 minutes without an interval across 14 scenes and five doors.
813 words, about 4 min3Mask, Square and Four Hundred People
A 24-year-old actor is cast as a masked servant in a 25-minute outdoor Carnival performance in a Valletta piazza. The audience of about 400 stands and moves around a raised 6m x 4m platform; there are no microphones, and the piazza has hard stone surfaces that reflect sound.
773 words, about 4 min4Eight Dimmers, Six Locations, Forty Seconds
A community theatre company is producing a 75-minute play in a 90-seat black-box studio with raked seating on three sides. The plot moves through six locations: a kitchen, a police interview room, a hospital corridor, a beach, a bus stop and a final monologue in a void.
801 words, about 4 min5Touring a Bilingual Migration Show to Gozo and Catania
A two-actor, one-musician company has a 55-minute bilingual show about Mediterranean migration. The script is roughly 40% Maltese, 40% English and 20% physical or silent, with two recorded voiceovers in Arabic and Italian.
850 words, about 4 min