The impact of war on daily life in Sri Lanka
Ira Mediyama, written and directed by Prasanna Vithanage
•Piyaseeli Wijegunasingha
Piyaseeli Wijegunasingha
In the classical realist tradition
Sri Lankan audiences recently had the rare opportunity to view Sisila Gini Gani (Ice on Fire), the 1992 prize-winning first feature by Prasanna Vithanage, which had a short season at Colombo’s Regal Theatre.
•Piyaseeli Wijegunasingha
A serious attempt to encourage Sri Lankan opera
Sonduru Varnadasi, Premasiri Khemadasa’s latest opera, was recently staged at the Elphinston Theatre in Colombo. Based on one of the many traditional stories about the life of Buddha, the opera is another important example of Khemadasa’s fusion of Western and Asian dramatic and musical forms.
•Piyaseeli Wijegunasingha
Fire: A film which bears witness to Deepa Mehta's courage as an artist
The following review of Deepa Mehta's 1996 film Fire was originally published in Sinhalese in Kamkaru Mawatha , the newspaper of the Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka, on May 29 and June 12, 1998.
•Piyaseeli Wijegunasingha
The lasting significance of The Trojan Women
An adaptation in Sinhala of Euripides' play, translation by Ariyawansa Ranaweera, script by Ananda Wakkumbura and Dharmasiri Bandaranayaka, directed by Dharmasiri Bandaranayaka
•Piyaseeli Wijegunasingha
Life is not the problem, but the conditions under which it is offered
Pavuru Valalu (Walls Within), directed by Prasanna Vithanage, screenplay by Tony Ranasingha.
•Piyaseeli Wijegunasingha