Unifaun Theatre Company is a new theatre group founded with the intention to work on challenging scripts and to produce new and engaging productions to the Maltese theatre audiences. We at Unifaun also believe in giving young and unproven talent a chance to prove its worth by aiming to strike a right balance between established actors and new exciting talent.
The kind of theatre we are really interested in is the kind that offers its audience food for thought. We are interested in capturing the world and realities around us and present them in new creative and imaginative contexts. We are interested in human emotions, social issues relevant to everyday life, psychological patterns, situations and imagery combined with honest acting. We are interested in dramas, farces, comedies, classics, experimental theatre . . . anything that challenges the mind and enlightens the heart.
Our preference is to work in the intimacy of small space theatres, which may trouble some people but which renders the experience so much more exhilarating.
Adrian Buckle
Founder, Artistic Director
Adrian Buckle studied Theatre at the Mikelang Borg Drama Centre after which, he worked with MADC (Malta Amateur Drama Club) for some years, mainly directing one-act plays. He went on to found Unifaun Theatre in order to concentrate more on Theatre that investigates and researches human characteristics, emotions and behaviour.
Adrian is also a member of the Drama Unit where, together with a group of colleagues, he works with schools and devises Theatre-In-Education projects for students. His work so far includes direction of some plays, most notably Harold Pinter's ‘One for the Road’, some script writing, with ‘Wild l'Allat’ being performed at the Manoel Theatre Loggiapalk, and Lighting Design in many productions.
Creative team
Pia Zammit
Administrator
A popular actor, you may have seen her before this as Diana in All’s Well That Ends Well, Bloody Mary in South Pacific, Anita in West Side Story, Fraulein Kost in Cabaret, The Vagina Monologues, Pam/Popo in Fat Men in Skirts, Sue in A Slice of Saturday Night, Landlady in Two, Roxie in Chicago, Frankie in Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Sarah in Company, Helen in Some Explicit Polaroids, Mistress Quickly in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Joe Borg
Development
Joe is responsible for most of Unifaun theatre's promotional design and photography as well as Unifaun's website.
With 16 years practical experience in graphic design, Joe has worked on major local and international brands operating in Malta. Taking a respectful approach to the traditions of design and common heritage in the arts together with a depp understanding of the technologies needed to bring a quality publication together. he does not have beautiful hair – actually it is thinning at an alarming rate.
David Micallef
Stage Management
You can never say that life will ever get boring for this guy. Teaching ICT as a day-job and juggling theatre, film and coaching artistic gymnastics does certainly give a meaning to the saying "no rest for the wicked". His first contact with theatre goes back to Ahn'Ahna jew M'Ahniex - the cult comedy/satire series which hit Malta's TV screens in 1986. Due to the overwhelming number of requests for public performances from the band which had performed the original soundtrack, the producers had created the Brown Rice (Junior) where being one of the leading performers required touring weekly around the island as an extension to the band. Moving away from centre-stage, David nowadays enjoys the buzz and hype of backstage coordinating the acquisition of props, building of the set and organising backstage crew. Working with Unifaun Theatre has been one heck of a journey, joining a group of people who finally are courageous enough to challenge taboos, mediocrity, hypocrisy, conservatism and any other puritan morality that still prevails on our island. One of his latest projects was working as a Production Coordinator for the Hollywood Award-Winning film by Latina Pictures: Malta George Cross.
Stefan Scerri
Stage Management
Stefan Scerri got the theatre-bug when he started teaching at Carlo Diacono Girls' Junior Lyceum in 1990. He has been actively involved in the school’s drama productions ever since. He also completed a 3-year course in Stage Management and Lighting at Mikelang Borg Drama Centre, going on to train other students for several years. During that time, he stage-managed practically every student production held at the Centre.
He was involved in several local productions (stage management, lights and sound) over the past years, and more recently, in most of Unifaun’s productions.