Sellotape, directed by Ruwanthie de Chickera. A final year drama school production by the University of Colombo. An engagingly creepy and weirdly abstract bit of theatre. What a shame there’s no repeat performances.
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Mind Adventures crew for ‘After Class’. L_R, standing: Thilini Perera, Yash Suriyapperuma. L-R, seated: Deeandra Bulner, Virgil Thomas, Ruvin de Silva (centre).
Mika Tennekoon’s exhibition ‘Home’ is on at the Saskia Fernando Gallery in Colombo. Go, see. There’s a pre-show interview here: http://sundaytimes.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
No parking, not on sale, no bar. Still though, the pictures might be fun to see. Come by if you have a free half hour. And ask for cake.
Wind project, Ambawela Farm , Nuwera eliya, Sri Lanka.
Gored by a bear in the troupe when he was a teenager, Mr. Ariyadasa of Circus Nilvala laments the inability of securing leopards and sloth bear for the circus today. Awareness of animal rights in the country means they can no longer raise, train and show exotic animals.
A new production by the gifted and inventive Mind Adventures Theatre Company is in the works. Of course you should be worried.
Click the picture to get closer to seeing the full set. In this picture: Cast member Sulochana Dissanayake (at right) talks to Tracy Holsinger about designing the shadow puppets in the show. Dissanayake, head of her own theatre company Power of Play, joins Mind Adventures for the upcoming devised show.
Mika Tennekoon, Illustrator, originally uploaded by deshan10.Mika and I recently saw a whole slew of portraits of some very serious-looking children’s book illustrators and thought we’d take the piss in this test shoot. Official portrait due soon. A selection of MIka’s pictures is here: mikaten.blogspot.com/
Christo Raymond, Esq., originally uploaded by deshan10.
Cheers Christo. I hope you’re giving the bloody angels a good kick in the bollocks.
