February 22nd 2008
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Caliban's Rebellion is a dramatic adaptation of a work of Shakespeare in typical CenterStage Productions' style. Drawing on The Tempest for inspiration Caliban's Rebellion attempts to paint Caliban in a more forgiving light and give a slightly different view from the traditional interpretation. So, you may be wondering… is it ...
February 8th 2008
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Christmas Inc., The Musical was the debut production for the Johnpillai and Friends Theater Group, or Freshly Brewed Theater as they would like to be known. It ranks, in its own quirky way, amongst the most convoluted, confusing and downright nonsensical piece of theater I've ever witnessed. And, just in ...
January 16th 2008
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Contrary to rumours, I am still alive... just barely. Thanks to all of you who mailed me out of concern that I hadn't been nasty to anyone in over a month. I plan to return soon enough.
A few things to cover... but let's get this out of the way:
"A merry ...
November 30th 2007
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A political satire in a land and age when real world politics could easily be mistaken for a farce. Corrupt politicians, inflation, broken promises, weapons of mass destruction and the Irish. With such a wealth of material to draw from you'd expect any serious attempt at political satire to write ...
November 29th 2007
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About Me
I am not a professional critic, nor have I ever said/pretended to be. I don't get paid for this.
These reviews are not published outside this site (unless clearly stated on the review itself so if you see something reprinted, then it's stolen, mmkay?).
I walk in through the front doors ...
October 23rd 2007
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This comes from a conversation I had with a couple of people this morning. Just who do we consider to be a good, if not Great Sri Lankan Theater?
Do we hail Steve de la Zilwa, the director of Equus as a great director even though this is the first ...
October 22nd 2007
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Directed by Steve de la ZilwaWritten by Peter ShafferStarring Tracy Holsinger, Shanaka Amarasinghe, Subha Wijesiriwardena, Hiran Abeysekara, Ranmali Mirchandani, Shannon Raymond & Janice De ZoysaMore information on this play can be found at the Homepage and Wikipedia.
Well, I'll jump right to it, I've always considered Equus to be rather dull ...
September 19th 2007
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First of all, thanks for all the recent comments, really appreciated.
That said let me clear up a few points:
About Me (and this site)
I am not a professional critic, nor have I ever said/pretended to be. I don't get paid for this.
These reviews are not published outside this site (unless clearly ...
September 17th 2007
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The souvenir for this production was packed with references to past glories, and I'm sure many would think that past achievements mean something... that if a person (or group of people) has a history of producing good work then any work produced by them is good (regardless of the actual ...
July 31st 2007
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Compared to last month my schedule's almost empty for August:
11th August: Young Soloists Concert (Ladies College Hall)
As before the review will be out the next morning.
I tend to be a little out of touch with things so any news on events in Colombo would be appreciated. I generally only ...