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| Sunday, 18 December 2005 |
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by Ranga Chandrarathne
Then, his fellow actors who seem to know exactly what they were doing, take him through the four plays. Amid the utter confusion, George steadily finds order, culminating in an unexpected ending, as he finally understands his role.
She is a hilarious character, uptight in her beliefs with no room for discussion. She has a reunion with her former students from "Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow School", a catholic school in which she teaches second grade. In an attempt to free her students from the sins they have committed during their life, Sister Mary decides to take an unorthodox measure - a measure that will leave the audience frozen in their seats. |
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It was an evening of fun and frolic as the stage sets for two acts of
absurdities of American playwright Christopher Durang. Young energetic
cast of International Baccalaureate diploma Theater Arts students of
Overseas School of Colombo prepared to enact " "An Actor's Nightmare" and
" Sister Mary Lgnatius Explains it All for You" at the state- of - the -
Art theatre of the School. 
An Actor's Nightmare parodies four famous plays: Private Lives by Noel
Coward, Hamlet by Shakespeare, Checkmate by Samuel Beckett and A Man for
All Seasons by Robert Bolt. A confused actor, George, is forced into a
Hamlet costume and thrown onto the stage unprepared. 
Durang expertly creates situations of complete absurdity, providing the
audience with uncontrollable laughter as well as a chance to contemplate
on a bigger scale upon the absurdity of life in general. In " Sister Mary
Lgnatius Explains it All for you ", Sister Mary, lectures the audience on
issues such as religion, promiscuity and hell. 
