In the established modern Sinhala theatre, few other plays have changes and re-shuffled their cast so much as “Suba saha Yasa”, the play had already become the rage when Upali Attanayaka, who had played the role Yasa with flamboyant assurance was suddenly not available. It is difficult to break through an image already associated with an actor of force and ...
In the established modern Sinhala theatre, few other plays have changes and re-shuffled their cast so much as “Suba saha Yasa”, the play had already become the rage when Upali Attanayaka, who had played the role Yasa with flamboyant assurance was suddenly not available. It is difficult to break through an image already associated with an actor of force and ...
Simon Nawagattegama talks of socialist realism in the manner of a man who has invented it. Mop-haired, bespectacled and chain-smoking, he clutched a yellow covered book he has written on the subject and said: “I have discussed in this book a lot of misconceptions on the subject. The misconceptions are mostly held by the so-called socialist themselves. “One comes up ...
Simon Nawagattegama talks of socialist realism in the manner of a man who has invented it. Mop-haired, bespectacled and chain-smoking, he clutched a yellow covered book he has written on the subject and said: “I have discussed in this book a lot of misconceptions on the subject. The misconceptions are mostly held by the so-called socialist themselves. “One comes up ...
The man was greater than life. So now that he is dead, it is rather difficult to believe that we will see him no more. It is as if he has passed on to the other realm that he so often wrote about. In that world where Earth, Heaven and the Underworld are one, in the place where mortals speak ...
I met Simon very casually and by surprise. This was at the then University of Ceylon campus in Peradeniya. I was rushing for a lecture at the Arts Theatre. Simon wearing a planter’s type of hat was seated on the left of the circular stone stockade, which we as students used to sit along in the evenings some times until ...
Sagara Jalaya Madi Handuwa Oba Sanda by Simon Nawagattegama; Published by Hansa The name Simon Nawagattegama has been almost a legend in Sinhtalese literary and artistic circles for simetime. Everybody has heard of him. He was famous, but for what no one exactly knew. He came from very humble origins, which as important qualification for being a writer in Ceylon ...
I saw “Suba saha Yasa” on a beautiful cool evening last week at the open air John De Silva theatre – a worthy memorial to the bard – long long after it had commenced its public run. Since its opening I have heard a diversity of views ranging from unbridled adulation to the harshly critical, not to mention a tediously ...
