Daphne murder play to be restaged in Italy and Malta
“Daphne’s murder happened five years ago but, no matter how you look at it, the story isn’t going away,” says Herman Grech. He is the writer and director of They Blew Her Up, the first play written to address the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and the political fallout. As the fifth anniversary of the murder approaches, Grech’s play is being restaged in Ferrara, Italy, and in Malta this October. They Blew Her Up, which won Production of the Year in the 2022 edition of Arts Council Malta’s Premju Għall-Arti, is one of the highlights of the International Journalism Festival in Ferrara on October 1 and later at Theatre Next Door in Malta between October 12 and 16. The play, originally co-produced with Spazju Kreattiv, was staged at KVS in Brussels, Belgium, in May. The characters in the play represent Daphne’s son (Joe Azzopardi), a journalist (Kim Dalli), a police investigator (Jes Camilleri) and two other characters that are left deliberately mysterious as the case is ongoing, namely the ‘criminal element’ (Alan Paris) and a ‘source’ (Charlotte Grech). They Blew Her Up is structured around five characters that individually investigate different...