The festival, which returned after four years, included sunset soirees, art trails, heritage walks, and stimulating sessions that offered much food for thought
of mind adventures theatre company. not long ago, to even talk politics, let alone stage a play deemed controversial, could be dangerous. anthony: the play that you ve been doing, it came from a book, the boy who. tracy: speaks in numbers , by mike masilamani. yeah, it was first performed in november 2009. so it s anthony: no way. controversial, would you say? tracy: a little. the play is about internally displaced people. after the end of the war, we had over 300,000 people in camps. the largest one of them was built to house 100,000 people, but ended up housing 227,000 people. tents that were designed for maybe five people to be in, had 10-15 people in them. there were no toilets in the camp, there were just these big pits. living conditions for these people was intolerable. there are some communities in this country that have been displaced for 25 years; that
of the l.t.t.e., or liberation tigers of tamil eelam, and their campaign to seek an independent state. the conflict ended in 2009, but an enormous number of internally displaced persons, or idp s as they re referred to, remain in refugee camps. tracy: ladies and gentlemen, appearing now, and before it is too late, the travelling circus of refugees. [ thunder ] anthony: colombo native tracy holsinger is the founder of mind adventures theatre company. not long ago, to even talk politics, let alone stage a play deemed controversial, could be . anthony: the play that you ve been doing, it came from a book, tracy: speaks in numbers ,
[ thunder ] anthony: colombo native tracy holsinger is the founder of mind adventures theatre company. not long ago, to even talk politics, let alone stage a play deemed controversial, could be dangerous. anthony: the play that you ve been doing, it came from a book, the boy who. tracy: speaks in numbers , by mike masilamani. yeah, it was first performed in november 2009. so it s anthony: no way. controversial, would you say? tracy: a little. the play is about internally displaced people. after the end of the war, we had over 300,000 people in camps. the largest one of them was built to house 100,000 people, but ended up-housing 227,000 people. tents that were designed for maybe five people to be in, had 10-15 people in them. there were no toilets in the camp, there were just these big
suppression led to the formation of the l.t.t.e., or liberation tigers of tamil eelam, and their campaign to seek an independent state. the conflict ended in 2009, but an enormous number of internally displaced persons, or idp s as they re referred to, remain in refugee camps. tracy: ladies and gentlemen, appearing now, and before it is too late, the travelling circus of refugees. [ thunder ] anthony: colombo native tracy holsinger is the founder of mind adventures theatre company. not long ago, to even talk politics, let alone stage a play deemed controversial, could be dangerous. anthony: the play that you ve been doing, it came from a book, the boy who.