About those rejected plays...
Petra Caruana Dingli (‘Two shocking rejected plays’, The Sunday Times of Malta, June 30), seems to be an avid follower of the absurd, a master spinner, and an ardent practitioner of the kind of journalism where stories are shot from the hip without any research or follow-up.
Had she given me the slightest of courtesy before writing her sad story about my plays, and called me, she would have found out that:
Min qatel lil Daphne Caruana Galizia? (Who killed Daphne Caruana Galizia?) was never, repeat, never, written. It was a play I had commissioned (no I was not the intended author) inspired by the book How I killed Margaret Thatcher by Anthony Cartwright, written during Thatcher’s premiership. (The UK government tried unsuccessfully to ban it). Min Qatel lil Daphne Caruana Galizia was satire, where the infamous blogger was to be found dead followed by a hilarious whirlwind investigation. Both parties come under suspicion until the curtain falls on the revelation that she had choked on her own bile. That was the plot to be.
The Manoel Theatre was informed that I was developing this play and they immediately had reservations. At this time no one had read anything. There was nothing...