Caliban’s Rebellion is a dramatic adaptation of a work of Shakespeare in typical CenterStage Productions’ style. Drawing on The Tempest for inspiration Caliban’s Rebellion attempts to paint Caliban in a more forgiving light and give a slightly different view from the traditional interpretation. So, you may be wondering… is it any good?
That depends…
In the beginning…
…was [...]
Christmas Inc., The Musical was the debut production for the Johnpillai and Friends Theater Group, or Freshly Brewed Theater as they would like to be known. It ranks, in its own quirky way, amongst the most convoluted, confusing and downright nonsensical piece of theater I’ve ever witnessed. And, just in case you thought I was [...]
Contrary to rumours, I am still alive… just barely. Thanks to all of you who mailed me out of concern that I hadn’t been nasty to anyone in over a month. I plan to return soon enough.
A few things to cover… but let’s get this out of the way:
“A merry christmas and happy new year [...]
A political satire in a land and age when real world politics could easily be mistaken for a farce. Corrupt politicians, inflation, broken promises, weapons of mass destruction and the Irish. With such a wealth of material to draw from you’d expect any serious attempt at political satire to write itself. And so I thought, [...]
This comes from a conversation I had with a couple of people this morning. Just who do we consider to be a good, if not Great Sri Lankan Theater?
Do we hail Steve de la Zilwa, the director of Equus as a great director even though this is the first play he’s done in ten years?
Or [...]
Directed by Steve de la ZilwaWritten by Peter ShafferStarring Tracy Holsinger, Shanaka Amarasinghe, Subha Wijesiriwardena, Hiran Abeysekara, Ranmali Mirchandani, Shannon Raymond & Janice De Zoysa
More information on this play can be found at the Homepage and Wikipedia.
Well, I’ll jump right to it, I’ve always considered Equus to be rather dull and tiresome. And a kid [...]
First of all, thanks for all the recent comments, really appreciated.
That said let me clear up a few points:
About Me (and this site)
I am not a professional critic, nor have I ever said/pretended to be. I don’t get paid for this.
These reviews are not published outside this site (unless clearly stated on the review itself [...]
The souvenir for this production was packed with references to past glories, and I’m sure many would think that past achievements mean something… that if a person (or group of people) has a history of producing good work then any work produced by them is good (regardless of the actual quality of the work in [...]
Compared to last month my schedule’s almost empty for August:
11th August: Young Soloists Concert (Ladies College Hall)
As before the review will be out the next morning.
I tend to be a little out of touch with things so any news on events in Colombo would be appreciated. I generally only cover English theater and Classical music, [...]
The Noir (Wannabee) Theater Fest examined…