ARTSCOPE in Brief

Neth Anda Bisavu in Weligama

Veteran dramatist Ananda S Wijayasiri’s musical comedy ‘Neth Anda Bisavu’ will be staged in Weligama Town Hall on March 31 at 3.30 and 6.30 pm.

Visharada Malini Bulathsinhala had vocalized the drama while the music is by Visharada Austin Munasinghe and Emil Mendis.

Ariyasena Gamage, Gangu Roshana, Rex Hamilton, Sriyani Suba Wickramaarachchi and Mali Liyanage star this play. ‘Neth Anda Bisavu’ is produced by Newton Vidana Pathiranage while the make up is by Sirinatha Wickramasinghe. Cyril Ariyapala manages the stage and the play is organized by Nandalal Galappatty on behalf on Samadhi Kala Sansadaya.

Dharamasoka Ballet with Thala

‘Dharamasoka ballet with Thala’ of Channa Wijewardena will be staged at the Musaeus college auditorium Colombo on April 6 at 6.30 pm. The event is organized by the Colombo branch of Dharamasoka college Past Pupilss Association to mark the centenary of Dharamasoka College, Ambalangoda.

The Rhythmic Thala concert performed by Channa Upili institute of Dance is staged annually since 2008. Channa wijewardena looks forward to carrying out an different experiment through this dancing concert.

Dharamasoka college of Ambalangoda is a leading school which emerged during the revival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka and emblem of Buddhism education.

This ballet has been composed by Wasantha Kumara Kobawaka and the music Samantha Perera.

‘Romeo Juliet La’ on March 30

Co-directed by Nadeeka Bandara and Jagath Jayasekara, ‘Romeo Juliet La’ will be staged at Maradana Tower Hall on March 30 at 6.30 pm.

Is Shakespeare’s Juliet the male fantasy of a woman, committing suicide for the sake of him? Is Romeo the male fantasy of a woman, prepared to commit suicide for the sake of such a woman?

Shakespeare talks about Romeo’s love for Rosaline but does not make him an ideal lover. He makes Juliet an ideal lover who has earlier loved none. Why? Is she the male fantasy of a woman, made for himself?

Why does Shakespeare manoeuvre Romeo and Juliet into suicide without allowing them to live together? Is it because Shakespeare had known that the beauty of male-female love is perpetuated only by death?

Is the “Personal Family” capable of sharing love as the consummation of “personal love”? To whom is it necessary to continue the personal families of Juliet’s love subject to atomization? Why do the families of Juliet’s agonize themselves to keep their families highly personal and private from others.

“We experience hunger, wars, smouldering anger of a planet, changed by us and proletarian suffering where one man cannot perceive the other, and the manacles on us for over 3000 years by religions.

Do you think that women should be get children to continue this process? Then what is the human honour which you and I enjoy? What are the remaining evidences to prove that we have been able to share together the life on this earth?”