Anton Bonnici – författare

Victoria Sultana, a respected religious woman on the island of Malta, begins to suffer inexplicably from the same holy wounds as Jesus Christ. On what Victoria assumes to be an ordinary Friday in May of 2010, she experiences the entirety of the Passion of the Christ and dies. Soon, her husband, family and friends are on television singing her praises, claiming that she was nothing short of a saint walking amongst us, but could there be more to her death... or was Victoria Sultana''s painful fate simply, and truly, God''s plan?

Yet So As By Fire takes a harrowing look at the dark side of this picturesque Mediterranean island, where hysteric religion, corrupt politics and twisted media coalesce to create a potent vortex of such proportions that it can perhaps only be undone by fiction.

Sometime in the mid-1990s, Terry Williams and Jennifer Cole, two deranged lovers, performed an experimental theatre piece. They ended the evening by shooting dead several members of the audience before killing themselves in a horrific double suicide. Today, two young performers want to take Terry and Jennifer''s original texts and restage Quasar Love-but what do the survivors of the original play have to say about it? And who would ever risk going to see this cursed show again?

This meta-theatrical play aims to explore the limits of extreme heteronormative toxicity whilst interrogating the boundaries of theatre and live performance. At what point does love become dangerous? And is everything put onstage a work of art? Who will be the judge? These questions and more are explored by two bold performers who dare to step into the dark minds of Jennifer and Terry, as they fall into the crushing, explosive void of a quasar love.