Winner of New Diorama, Underbelly and Methuen Drama's Untapped Award 2022 Finalist for Best Performance Piece at the Offies Awards 2024 Sometimes I'm afraid of this play. Malta: Catholic kitsch, golden sun, deep blue sea, Eurovision - and a blanket ban on abortion. Propelled by three years of interviews with anonymous contributors and their own lived experience, actors and activists Marta and Davinia interrogate Malta's restrictions on the freedom of women. What does it mean for your home to boast the world's most progressive LGBTQIA+ rights, leading transgender laws - and a population that is almost unanimously anti-choice? Blanket Ban is a rallying cry from award-winning Chalk Line Theatre. This edition was published to coincide with the production at Underbelly Cowgate, Edinburgh, in August 2022.

Winner of the Untapped Award 2022 and based on real-life interviews, Blanket Ban is a theatrical rallying cry interrogating Malta's blanket ban on abortion.

About the Author
Davinia Hamilton is a performer, writer and activist. She did her training at ArtsEd, and has attended training workshops with Punchdrunk, Complicite, Clean Break, and Tangled Feet. Originally from Malta, Davinia now lives and works in London. She is a recent graduate of the Faber Academy's Writing a Novel programme, under the tutelage of Nikesh Shukla. She is working on her first novel. Marta Vella is a London-based actress and theatre practitioner originally from Malta. She has collaborated extensively with TOI TOI, Malta's National Theatre's educational programme, and co-founded her own theatre company FROLIC. Chalk Line Theatre is a multi-award-winning company based in Luton, who tour work both nationally and internationally. They are Associate Artists at Next Generation Youth Theatre and a Graduate Emerging Company of New Diorama.


Book Information
ISBN 9781350357563
Author Davinia Hamilton
Format Paperback
Page Count 72
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC