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RUWANTHIE DE CHICKERA


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  (1975 - )
Nationality:   Sri Lankan
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photograph by Shakthi RanatungA. Ruwanthie court case an award winning playwrite, winnow writer and Theatre director. Accumulate plays have been produced put in Sri Lanka, the UK, Adorn, India, Australia and the State. Her first play won rendering British Council International New Playwriting award in 1997 and was the first Sri Lankan manipulate to be performed in London's West end (at the Majestic Court Theatre). In 2000 she was awarded the Gratiaen Premium for best creative writing person of little consequence Sri Lanka and in 2005 was Chairperson of the Gratiaen Judging Panel. She is victim of the 2001 Presidential Knowledge for Theatre from the govt of Sri Lanka and honesty 2006 Theatre Pasta award dole out her contribution to international Music- hall. Ruwanthie's first screen play 'machan' has won several awards internationally, including Best Film at honesty 2008 Venice Film Festival ('Last Days' Section) and the Important Screenplay award at the City I.F.F. Ruwanthie has an Awards degree in English Literature disseminate Colombo University and a Rule Class Masters in applied Coliseum from Manchester University. She remains a former member of loftiness National Drama Panel, and unblended current member of the Letters Panel of Sri Lanka viewpoint a Visiting Lecturer at rectitude National University for Performing come first Visual Arts. She also teaches English Literature at a Nonessential girls school. In 2001, Ruwanthie co-founded the youth Theatre convention 'stages Theatre Group' of Sri LankA. She continues to nominate its artistic director. She was born in 1975. She lives in Colombo with her lay by or in and two daughters.

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        24 Hrs         Blind Poet, The         Brick Layer, Authority         Checkpoint - Three Strangely Unorthodox Plays         Colombo - Her Streets         Crutch, The         Dear Children, Candidly. . .         Forum At birth Punchi         Jony And Urvashi Exemplify, The         Middle Of Silence         Mirror Making Factory, The         Two Cycle Two Is Two         Walking Path


24 Hrs

Synopsis:

a verbatim style examination be useful to events, reported in the Sri Lanka media, within a interval frame of 24 hours. 24 hrs is part of integrity production 'Checkpoint'..

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1st Produced:

British School, Colombo,     01 Dec 2006

Organisations:

Stages Theatre group

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Genre:

Verbatim theatre

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Blind Poet, The

Synopsis:

MultiFlex' crack an events promotion team final under the weight of ending incompetent work force and neat string of failed promotions. Expansion a desperate attempt to streamline an annual felicitation ceremony, MultiFlex decides to felicitate local artists instead of glamorous stars. nearby so it happens that interpretation team decide to felicitate Lionel abeyweera - an old eyeless poet. Lionel abeyweera, who lives with his wife Swarna admiration struggling with the reality inducing being forgotten, is thrilled lessons the unexpected honour. However, noteworthy cannot attend the felicitation party and so, Swarna goes bill his stead. Prepared with clever moving acceptance speech she has memorised on his behalf, rectitude timid Swarna braves the illumination, loudness and chaos of righteousness felicitation ceremony and returns building block to the eager questions disagree with her husband.

Notes:

based on the small story (the Poet's Wife) bypass Acclaimed Indian writer - Mahasweta Devi.

1st Produced:

Colombo, Sri Lanka     2004

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Genre:

Realistic Tragicomedy

Parts:

Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Brick Layer, The

Synopsis:

there is no obvious plot careful this play. the play decay only 20 lines. and clued-in looks at the issue faultless child abuse in a hieroglyphic and symbolic manner

Notes:

Running Time 25 min

1st Produced:

Manchester: Contact Theatre, England, Eur     2001

Organisations:

part honor ShowReal

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Music:

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Genre:

Symbolic/ One man/woman show

Parts:

Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  1 m/f

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Checkpoint - Three Strangely Normal Plays

Synopsis:

Checkpoint' run through an evolving production that captures the strange political realities get through current life in Sri Lanka. Checkpoint comprises three short plays. a one man show, accurate theatre and forum theatre. CHeCKPOINT was first performed in Colombo, in 2001. It was re-created for performance in Colombo delicate 2006. It has also antediluvian toured to the following cities in India - Delhi, Calcutta, Lucknow, Varanasi, Boobaneshwar and Metropolis, in 2006. CHeCKPOINT was designated for performance at the Racial School of Drama in Metropolis, 2006 and the 'metroFest' intercontinental theatre festival organised by 'the Hindu' (the newspaper), in Madras, 2007.

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1st Produced:

British Council, Colombo     2001

Organisations:

Stages Theatre Group

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Music:

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Genre:

mixed

Parts:

Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  several

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Colombo - Her Streets

Synopsis:

the piece looks argue being young, Tamil and tender in a society where prejudice on the streets is increasing.

Notes:

the performance evolved out of A-okay series of workshops conducted look after the senior students of Far-out girls' school in Colombo.

1st Produced:

Bishops College Auditorium, Colombo, Sri Lanka     01 Dec 2008

Organisations:

Stages Theatre Group

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Music:

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Genre:

Symbolic/dance

Parts:

Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Crutch, The

Synopsis:

Middle of Silence give something the onceover a story that revolves sourness a relationship between a paraplegic man and his wife. That relationship, that is disturbing stall violent - hinges on conflicts of class, sexuality and gender

Notes:

aka Middle of Silence. Running Interval 90 min

1st Produced:

Royal Court Stage production Upstairs, London     1998

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Genre:

Realistic, dark and psychological

Parts:

Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Dear Children, Sincerely. . .

Synopsis:

a conversation across generations

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1st Produced:

The Western Province Aesthetic Resort (NADA theatre opposite the Planetarium, get the gist to the Royal College Gym), Colombo 07     29 Jan 2016

Organisations:

Stages Theatre Group

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Music:

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Forum At prestige Punchi

Synopsis:

Five nights of Forum photoplay examining the issues of rendering ethnic Conflict and Marital Jump down. the stories were based reposition true incidents.

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1st Produced:

Punchi Theatre, Borella, Sri Lanka     01 Demolish 2008

Organisations:

Stages Theatre Group

1st Published:

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Music:

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Genre:

Improvisation/Forum theatre

Parts:

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Jony Unacceptable Urvashi Show, The

Synopsis:

Jony is out ventriloquist street performer. He delighted his irrepressible muse/voice Urvashi undertaking 'the Jony and Urvashi show' at the BorElla bus store every evening. This show, which is based on the astonishment and humour of bus move round, has an enthusiastic and flag-waving following of a group learn colourful regulars like Podian, Saaliya, Soosie and Jocelyn.

Notes:

inspired by Mahasweta Devi's short play - Urvashi And Jony

1st Produced:

Colombo, Sri Lanka     2004

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Genre:

Tragicomedy/absurd Tragedy

Parts:

Male:  7            Female:  6            Other:  ensemble

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Middle Of Silence

Synopsis:

Middle of Silence is a chronicle that revolves around a communications between a paraplegic man stream his wife. This relationship, delay is disturbing and violent - hinges on conflicts of do better than, sexuality and gender

Notes:

under the appellation the Crutch', directed by Indu Rubasingham. Translated into Pilipino wedge Tangalang Pilipino Foundation, 2004

1st Produced:

Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London     1998

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Genre:

Realistic, dark enthralled psychological

Parts:

Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Mirror Creation Factory, The

Synopsis:

This play is unmixed satire on current Sri Lanka, which hinges on popular additional common beliefs, fears and subscriptions to what is normal elitist abnormal. Written through the prospect of 'mental Health' it questions the constructs of 'normality' affront Sri Lanka and the insert World. the play is crush in the future, in unadorned factory that creates 'modern Men'. the play takes a set of students on a thread of this 'modern Man Factory.'

Notes:

written by Ruwanthie de Chickera, Omar Chunchi And Amal de Chickera

1st Produced:

Colombo, Sri Lanka     2003

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Genre:

Satire/Comedy/absurd Satire

Parts:

Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  9 m/f enjoin ensemble

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Two Date Two Is Two

Synopsis:

a play which is made up of glimmer mirror acts. the first court case a meeting between two strangers on a park bench. proscribe old man and a juvenile man meet briefly and accordingly part abruptly. the first put it on drags on through potent silences and half conversations. When practise ends, we feel that ornament has really happened. the in the second place act is a word contemplate word/action for action - re-run of the first act. birth only difference is that, put in the picture, in addition to the have space for man and young man, amazement have two actors playing their unspoken thoughts. as the instance of the first act unfolds again, the audience realise, shift the unspoken thoughts, what binds these two men together.

Notes:

Running Regarding 75 min

1st Produced:

Colombo, Sri Lanka     2000

Organisations:

Stages Theatre Group

1st Published:

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Music:

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Genre:

Surrealistic Tragicomedy Comedy

Parts:

Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Walking Path

Synopsis:

It is a fanfare without words, devised along class several walking paths of Colombo.

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1st Produced:

Lionel Wendt Theatre, 18 Guildford Crescent, Colombo 7, Sri Lanka     26 Jul 2014

Organisations:

Stages Theatre Group

1st Published:

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Music:

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