BLANKET BAN

“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 country to implement trailblazing social justice laws, but have some of the world’s strictest abortion laws? ​A rallying cry from award-winning Chalk Line Theatre.

Supported By: Abortion Support Network, Break The Taboo Malta, The Women's Rights Foundation, Abortion Rights, The New Diorama, Underbelly, Methuen Drama, Borkowski, artsdepot and Artsadmin

​★★★★ "This is a theatre birthed out of exasperation" Time Out​
★★★★ "Effortlessly treading the line between buoyant and sombre" The Guardian​
★★★★ "It seems impossible to leave Blanket Ban without a sense of the great peril of the lack of abortion access in Malta – and of course, across the western world" WhatsOnStage​
★★★★★ "Hard-hitting, and painfully eye-opening" Theatre Weekly​
★★★★★ "A heart-shatteringly brilliant piece of theatre" SkinnyMagazine​
★★★★★ "Theatre such as this is rare" MickeyJoTheatre


Spazju Kreattiv (Malta) 2025
Southwark Playhouse 2023
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2022
New Diorama 2022

Creative Team
Performed & Written by Davinia Hamilton & Marta Vella
Director: Vikesh Godhwani & Sam Edmunds
Producer: Chalk Line Theatre
Designer: Isabella Van Braeckel
Designer (Underbelly): Cara Evans
Dramaturg: Stephanie Dale
Video Designer: Tom Fitch
Lighting Designer (Southwark Playhouse): Holly Ellis
Lighting Designer (Spazju Kreattiv): Sam Edmunds
Associate Producer( Southwark Playhouse): Natalie Chan
Assistant Producer & Understudy (Underbelly): Sandie von Brockdorff
Understudy and ASM (Southwark Playhouse): Chantelle Micallef Grimaud
Stage Manager (Southwark Playhouse): Sophie Vera Mclean
Stage Manager (Spazju Kreattiv): Denise Perini