M Safeer

Safeer goes to Flame

Veteran dramatist M Safeer and the young dramatists of Inter Act Artblack box team S.Dayalan, Thivanka Ranasinghe, Reggie Chandimaand the drama translator Jayalath S Gomes will be leaving the Island on November 28 to Flame, school of performing art in Pune, India, to train the final year students of the university on the modern performing art.

The team will spend about four weeks with the final year students teaching them about the modern trends in theatre art, movement, flexibility of the body and its use for dancing and will come up with a theatre production.

This is the first time a Sri Lankan theatre group has been invited by a foreign country. M Safeer pioneered introducing Black Box Theatre to Sri Lanka.