Theatre audience in a Balancing act

What purpose does theatre serve today in Sri Lanka? Is it one that serves the purpose of lucrative entertainment or some other objective, such as being a catalyst for social transformation? The latter is somewhat difficult to be effectively achieved perhaps if married with the former.

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EDVARD TUSK: without his face

A Novel by Pablo D’Stair

There was no heat on in my room, but just the sense of enclosure gave it the constricted feel of a furnace, oppressive (combined with my aches, I felt as though I was being chewed in some ponderous maw) my legs began to go sideways on me while a sense of sweating chill scaled my back and I bent in staggers to my knees.

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The Lady of Shalott still haunts

Among the multitude of readers, many have come across fictitious characters especially in poetry that resemble many events or happenings in our lives or even having our identities. It is at pensive moments they strike us. It could be from childhood, adulthood or even later.

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