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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"The theatre festival has been a tremendous success in terms of pure artistic achievement." Feroz Kamardeen This is a quote from this article in the Sunday Times, July 22nd 2007. This is what is referred to as an opinion. Another example of an opinion would be as follows: "The Noir Theater Fest succeeded in ...

The Devil and Billy Markham by Shel Silverstein Directed by Ifaz Bin Jameel Starring Marsh Dodanwela The end of the fourth and final installment of the Noir Theater Festival, by StageLight&MagicThe last time I saw Marsh Dodanwela on stage he was wearing a monk's habit and doing what to the un-trained eye appeared ...

The Interview by David Mamet Directed by Feroz Kamardeen Produced by Amrik Wilson Starring Jithendra Seneviratne & Sashane Perera Part of the fourth and final installment of the Noir Theater Festival, by StageLight&MagicA lawyer and his interogator sitting in hell. Sounds fairly plausible. According to the SL&M website: Interview is an oblique, mystifying interrogation. A ...

I left the theater with an unusual revulsion of the female sex, which I attribute to Niluka Silva's apathetic, wooden and unpalatable performance in The Other Side. When considering her for her next role I recommend that a monkey of some description be used for comparison. An untrained chimpanzee hurling ...

Centrestage Productions’ “Pyramus and Thisby”, directed by Jehan Aloysius, from the 12th – 15th July, 2007, at the British Council Garden The magic of the internet and social networking succeeded in getting me caught up in the hype that preceded the opening night of Centrestage Productions’ “Pyramus and Thisby”. I awaited ...

The Specialist So, a hippie in a shirt and tie sitting in a chair, or at least that was my first impression anyway. Turns out he's there to give a lecture on the finer points of torture... Smashing. The Specialist Directed by Anuruddha Fernando Produced by Chalaka Gajabahu Cast: Ifaz Bin Jameel At ten minutes long this ...

I've heard of starting things with a bang... but starting things with a fag? Most theater productions wait at least a half-hour before parading the stereotypical fruitcake in front of the audience, a cheap laugh as a last resort when things are slipping downhill. Last nights' rendition of Pyramus and ...