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Mind Adventures Theatre Co., Colombo, Sri Lanka
The Mind Adventures Theatre Company (founded in 1999) is an experimental English theatre company based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. They live by a mantra of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll and strive to make theatrically inventive, politically conscious theatre in the tropical heat of Sri Lanka – where corruption rules and the mangoes are…
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DBC Pierre
DBC Pierre is perhaps best known as the writer of Vernon God Little – an astute and frighteningly accurate look at what makes America the country that it is – and besides, what makes it so endlessly fascinating, both in love and hate, to us – the rest of the world. Following the critical acclaim…
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Eat This
‘All Hail Sauron’ reads a placard at a protest outside London’s hot new building, The Shard. The Shard is now Europe’s tallest building. Read more about the UK’s latest and most ridiculous show of penis-power here.
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A Burning: 31 Years Later
31 years ago, today, the Jaffna Public Library, situated in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, was burnt to the ground. It was collateral damage of a long and bitter ethnic conflict which ultimately claimed many other things of value, including several thousands of human lives, property, homes, landmarks of culture and religion, of civilisation. Eye-witnesses of the incident…
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The Idea of One-Ness: Questions of Identity, Ethnicity and Unity
When the Armed Forces of the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) military defeated the LTTE in 2009, thus ending a 26 year long civil war in Sri Lanka, the President of Sri Lanka, also the Minister for Defence and the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, said this in his speech to his parliament…
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Thoughts on the Preview of Cast as Mother
As I watched the preview of Ruwanthie de Chickera’s new show, Cast as Mother, last night, the feeling that I was most overwhelmed by was that I missed my mother. Mothers are wonderful, brave, curious creatures. They are not always easy to understand – they are often confusing. I think the glaring contradictions in conviction…
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What Samhara Means: A review of Samhara and an unraveling of what it really means for Sri Lankan Dance
Samhara is a new dance work created by the Odissi dance ensemble, Nrityagram, together with their long-term friends and collaborators in Sri Lanka, the Chitrasena Dance Company. It was performed over the weekend at the Lionel Wendt Theatre in Colombo, fresh off the plane after a successful tour of United States and Mexico, having premiered…
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Subha M Wijesiriwardena 