Makarakshaya revived on stage
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Choreographer Jehan Aloysius
Assistant Director Ranga Bandaranayake
Make-up Wasantha Vittachchi
Stage Managers Priyantha Prabhas
Susanga
Kahandawaarachchi
Oshadee Gunasekara
Translator Cyril C. Perera
Director Dharmasiri
Bandaranayake
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Yevgeny Shvarts was born in Kazan in 1896 into a physician's family.
His father was Jewish, his mother Russian.
At the end of the 1910s he studied law at Moscow State University,
but was drafted into the army in the spring of 1917.
He served in the White regiment of general Kornilov, and suffered
shell-shock during the storming of Yekaterinodar in 1918. As a result of
this he lost several teeth and acquired a tremor of the hands that
plagued him for the rest of his life.
In 1919 decided to devote his life to dramatic art and literature.
From 1924 on he lived in Leningrad and worked in Gosizdat under the
guidance of Samuil Marshak; during that time he also became close with
members of the avant-garde literary group OBERIU.
In 1929 Shvarts began writing plays, the best known of which are the
modern retellings of fairy tales.
The Sinhala production Makarakshaya has been staged 884 times all
around the country from 1985 to 1999. The 2010 production will be staged
at the Lionel Wendt on June 19 and 20 at 6.45 pm. |
