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‘Sigra tad-demm’ a theatre drama on Two families will be preseneted by Imagin-arts Drama group on on Friday 6th July and Saturday 7th July at 20:00hrs CEST.

The story revolves around two families, Helen Stringer, mother to Isabelle Stringer, is a wealthy and religious woman with high values and old fashioned ways. Isabell becomes pregnant at the age of fifteen, Helen, being a woman of religious beliefs, enrages and gives the baby away, thinking that she is saving her daughter’s soul from “The Devil’s Child”.

As punishment, Helen also revokes her daughter’s inheritance rights, leaving Isabelle with nothing, except for her grief and the pain over losing her child. Isabelle then marries Michael Gouder, father to her long lost son, together they concieve two other children

On the other hand, Pierre Degabriele is a wealthy and ruthless businessman of American origin, husband to Grace Degabriele, father to Jake and the spoiled self-centred, non-identical twins Vanessa and Valeria.

Grace Degabriele was once a waitress who seduced Pierre and married him. She then raised her twin daughters Vanessa and Valeria and has a deep affection for her first son Jake. As the years went by, Pierre’s love for Grace turned into indifference.

Unaware of each other, both families are connected and hell is about to break lose when Isabelle discovers that her son Daniel is suffering from a terminal illness…one which Michael battled and survived years ago.

Siġra tad-Demm is intertwined by surprises from beginning to end. Although it has a humouristic grip which holds your attention and almost leads you to believe that this is a relaxing play, it starts to slowly introduce the problems of life which may not have a solution.

The script was aptly written by Justin Grech, Janine Caruana and Simone Alamango. This performance is being produced by imagin-Arts Drama Group and directed by Ivan De Battista. Tickets can be obtained at the door.