I was slightly worried about watching this play before entering the Spazju Kreattiv theatre. I was half expecting the worst – a play that would pander and moralise without a shred of nuance. I felt something nondescript stir inside my mind… the trepidation I have come to feel whenever anything in our landscape purports to represent women’s voices and women’s concerns, parroting prescribed jargon while being all too far-removed. How awash with relief I felt when I was met with the complete opposite.
Her Say, staged at Spazju Kreattiv between March 11 and 13, was a theatrical production composed of three monologues and an epilogue, directed by Charlotte Grech. Each monologue was written by three separate writers for three specific characters, each easily locatable in different local scenarios and deeply recognisable.
The first monologue featured the actress Monica Attard who interpreted the part of an elderly woman speaking about the change in her experience after leaving her husband, whom she had been married to for decades. Titled Libsa Fuksja, the monologue was written by Simone Spiteri.
Attard inhabited her character with great ease and struck an instant connection with her...
