{"id":9082,"date":"2025-02-14T10:31:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T10:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/?p=9082"},"modified":"2025-08-29T03:18:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T01:18:23","slug":"arts-council-malta-in-new-york-in-partnership-with-new-yorks-origin-theatre-co-presented-maltese-playwright-andre-mangions-raymond-fight-beck-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/arts-council-malta-in-new-york-in-partnership-with-new-yorks-origin-theatre-co-presented-maltese-playwright-andre-mangions-raymond-fight-beck-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Arts Council Malta in New York in partnership with New York\u2019s Origin Theatre Co. presented Maltese playwright Andre Mangion\u2019s \u201cRaymond Fight Beck\u201d in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For this production, New York Based South African artistic director Kim Kerfoot, assembled a stellar cast of &nbsp;actors, whose outstanding voices and stage presence brought to life Andre Mangion\u2019s play (trans. by&nbsp;Simon Bartolo). The play was presented &nbsp;at the Istituto Cervantes on May 13<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;in New York.<br><br>The cast included, actors Matt Consalvo and Alex&nbsp;Marz playing Dyson Cumbo and Raymond Beck respectively, as well as Christopher Randolph ( as Mayor Cumbo), Stella Pulo ( as Grandma Beck &amp; Blair), Richard Waddingham ( as George Beck &amp; Il-Gistuz), Jim DeMonic ( as Grillu &amp; Charlie), Lev Harvey ( as Victor Beck), Jack McLaughlin ( stage reader), and British actor Martin Ewens ( as the Inspector and Il-Lover), &#8211; best known for his work in film and TV, most notably for his appearance in Guy Ritchie&#8217;s &#8216;Sherlock Holmes&#8217;, and his recurring role on Amazon&#8217;s comedy series &#8216;Red Oaks&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This event was produced by&nbsp;<strong><em>Origin Theatre Company<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;in partnership with&nbsp;<strong><em>Arts Council Malta in New York<\/em><\/strong>, and presented as part of the second annual&nbsp;<em>European Month of Culture<\/em>&nbsp;New York City series, produced in association with the European Union Delegation for the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Origin Theatre Company is devoted to introducing New York audiences to an illuminating spectrum of new theatre voices from across Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week\u2019s presentation of a Maltese play to an American audience was a first for Arts Council Malta in New York.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-mt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9089,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082\/revisions\/9089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}