Gratiaen Evening

The Gratiaen Trust and The International Center for Ethnic Studies (ICES)will present a ‘Gratiaen Evening’ with Ernest Macintyre on September 14 at 6.30 pm at the ICES Auditorium, 2, Kynsey Terrace, Colombo 8.

Entitled “Between cultures, Times and Spaces: Ernest Macintyre’s Theatre as Dialogue,” Macintyre will be in conversation with a moderator and the audience on his work, the role of theatre in facilitatinf dialogue between diverse communities and theatre craft.

Now domiciled in Australia, Ernest Macintyre is one of Sri Lanka’s leading English playrights and theatre directors. His major plays include, Let’s Give Them Curry, The Education of Miss Asia(which was on the GCE Advanced Level Syllabys), Rasanayagam’s Last Riot and He Still Comes From Jaffna.

The Gratiaen Trust, which has conducted workshops on creative writing and sponsored translations projects in addition to offering the annual Gratiaen Prize and the HAI Goonetileke Prize for Translation, has decided to organise a series of literary events which will be held in Colombo and other cities. This Gratiaen Evening’ with Ernest Macintyre, co-sponsored by the ICES, will be the first of many such evenings.