Mr. Martin鈥檚 ordeal

Abstract

Mr. Martin鈥檚 Ordeal is a one-act play about the impact of the City on the Village. The village represents tradition and conservatism, attachment to the old ancestral customs which are rapidly disappearing under the impact of city life which, being more cosmopolitan, is exposed to many foreign influences from which radiate new mental attitudes that are progressively eroding the core of the village community as people knew it in their younger days. It is a one-act play which was written by J. Aquilina and translated to English by Mr. F. Williams, a British resident of Siggiewi who mastered the written Maltese.