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Belvoir Street Theatre
Company B Belvoir
- The Diary scope a Psychotic, 4 Dec 2010
- The Adventurer Photoplay Plan , 9 November 2010
- Namatjira, 25 Sept 2010
- Gwen Make real Purgatory, 31 July 2010
- Vampire Theatresports, 27 June 2010
- Measure For Goahead, 5 June 2010
- The Sapphires, 26 Possibly will 2010
- Stories Suck in air & Westward, 3 Might 2010
- The Manoeuvring of Resign yourself to , 17 April 2010
- Love Me Frail, 18 Parade 2010
- That Physiognomy, 6 Feb 2010
- The Hardcover of Even, 23 Dec 2009
- Page 8, 21 Oct 2009
- David Hare's Berlin/Wall, 12 October 2009
- Gethsemane, 29 Honourable 2009
- The Assurance, 16 July 2009
- Ruben Songster, 23 Hawthorn 2009
- The Fellow from Mukinupin, 28 Tread 2009
- Baghdad Combination, 7 Feb 2009
- Being Harold Pinter - 2nd Edible, 28 Jan 2009
- The Instrumentalist, 16 Jan 2009
- Being Harold Pinter - 1st Edible, 7 Jan 2009
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*****
DESPITE having some dear long standing friends who originate from Sri Lanka, I must confess to knowing very little about this small South Asian island.
As a young philatelist, I do remember that when it was formerly known as Ceylon it had some glorious stamps. Travel supplements also marvel at its beauty and offer it up as an on/off holiday destination – depending on what’s happening there politically and its many years of civil war which destabilised and isolated it .
Currently of course the latest Sri Lankan president has fled along with others, whilst locals apparently peacefully occupy his palace, taking turns to swim in his pool.
That being pretty much the sum of my knowledge, ‘Counting and Cracking’ at the REP was therefore a massive eye-opener on many levels.
This production has transferred straight from the Lyceum Theatre at the main Edinburgh Festival to be a major part of our own Birmingham 2022 Festival.
The play is semi-autobiographical and written by Sri Lankan/Australian S Shakthidharan who also associate directs alongside fellow Australian Eamon Flack.
Picture by Brett Boardman. s
Flack is Artistic Director at the renowned ‘Belvoir’ company in Sydney.
Counting and Cracking is more saga than a simple play – it follows four generations of one
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Review: Counting and Cracking, Adelaide Festival
Taking us from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1956 to Sydney in 2004, Counting and Cracking is an epic theatrical production on every level – dramatically, technically and socio-politically.
It’s a family saga spanning four generations; a migrant story linking old and new Australians; an exhilarating and deeply moving drama that both shatters and uplifts, and a production which brings fresh perspectives and much-needed new voices to the mainstage.
Written by Sri Lankan-Australian playwright S. Shakthidharan (‘Shakthi’), who has worked with migrant communities across Sydney for more than a decade, the play begins with the widowed Radha (Kalieaswari Srinivasan) and her son Siddhartha (Shiv Palekar) pouring Radha’s mother’s ashes into the waters of Sydney’s Georges River.
Siddhartha (Sid to his friends) is clearly unfamiliar with the ritual his mother insists on, having been born and raised in Australia after Radha fled Sri Lanka in 1983 following her husband’s murder in a violent uprising.
The ceremony complete, Radha returns to her Pendle Hill apartment to contemplate her future – perhaps a date with roguish air conditioner salesman, Ismet (Arky Michael)? – only to receive a phone call which throws her life, and that of her son