Famous farce heads to the Manoel
A new Maltese translation of a classic comedy play is soon set to open at the Manoel Theatre in Valletta.
Moħħok hemm għax dieħel... l-ajruplan has been translated and adapted into Maltese by John Suda and Mario Micallef. The play is based on Boeing-Boeing, a farce by French playwright Marc Camoletti, which went on to storm London’s West End as an English language adaptation and has even been listed as the most performed French play worldwide in the Guinness Book of Records.
The story follows bachelor Bernard, an architect with a flat in Paris and three beautiful fiancées: Giséle, a stewardess with Swissair; Rita, a stewardess with Air Malta; and Ingrid, a stewardess with Lufthansa.
Bernard has designed a routine that ensures that none of these three women ever find out about each other – so long as their flight schedules only bring them home every three days. His live-in maid, Maria, continues to help him pull off this ruse.
However, this perfect schedule is bound to run into trouble sometime – and it does. A change in flight orders combined with weather complications and a new, speedier Boeing jet disrupt his careful planning, eventually bringing all three women home on the...