Stages Theatre Group will present the most recent version of their ongoing socio-political drama Dear Children, Sincerely (DCS) at the Lionel Wendt this July. Directed by Ruwanthie de Chickera, the play highlights seven singular events that changed the course of Sri Lanka’s history, and will be performed on July 5 and 6 at 7.00pm at the Wendt.
Titled, Dear Children, Sincerely… - Seven Decades of Sri Lanka, the play is a highly-charged ensemble performance that takes the audience on a journey through 70 years of Sri Lanka’s recent history. The piece was created through conversations with senior citizens born in the 1930s, and through their stories, traces the dramatic socio-political journey of the Sri Lankan people, from Independence in the 1940s to the end of the war in 2009.
The play is written and directed by Ruwanthie de Chickera and was devised with an ensemble group of artists comprising well-established actors and talented newcomers. The play explores how history evolves, and how memory works; focussing on what people retain, how they retain it, what gets carried on and why things get erased.
Performances devised under the DCS project -- starting from 2015 -- have toured within and outside Sri Lanka. The first DCS show was on Sri Lankan and Rwandan histories, and was staged in Kigali at the Ubumuntu Arts Festival in 2015. DCS shows have since toured in Kerala, Jammu, New Delhi and Mumbai. Performances have also taken place in Ireland and the UK, and were adopted by ASHTAR – the Theatre International Youth Festival, Palestine in 2016.
The current Seven Decades show was first performed at the University of Visual and Performing Arts in November, 2016 and was supported by ONUR.
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