Category: Theatre and Film
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Rape, the Abuse of Power: Feminist Thoughts on ‘Silence in the Courts’
Note: In this piece, when I refer to ‘rape’, I refer more or less exclusively to heterosexual rape, as committed against women, by men. The omission of the discussion of other versions of sexual violence and rape is not exclusionary in intent, but because the piece attempts to discuss ‘rape’ as presented in the…
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Scrutinizing The Dark Knight Rises, and an Ode to Nolan
The Dark Knight Rises finally opened on the 20 July 2012, surrounded by much hype and expectation – it is the final installment of Christopher Nolan’s epic Batman trilogy. Does Nolan succeed in bringing to close the story of Gotham just as brilliantly as he began it, just as brilliantly as he so carefully tread the…
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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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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…
Subha M Wijesiriwardena 