Sunil de Silva as Lady Muriel Panabokke

“When it comes to acting the dominating, Anglophile Kandyan walawa Hamine, Lady Muriel Panabokke, derived from Oscar Wilde’s Lady Bracknell, it does not matter that the actor is a male hamu, because this aristocratic, no to mention autocratic lady has a personality so formaidable that it does not matter whether she is man or woman.”

When told that we must seek our historical origins, after independence, says she:

“How far back do we have to go? To when we were apes? Before we were Sinhaleese or Tamil we were all apes, hanging on the same tree adn chattering the same sounds!
Tell your scholar, obsessed with the past that humans go forward not backwards.”

HE IS IN SUPERB FORM AS HER !

Sydney Kolam Maduwa’s comedy, Ernest Macintyre’s “ THE LOST CULAVAMSA or The Unimportance of Being Aryan or Dravidian“, derived from Oscar Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest, directed by Adam Raffel, Lighthouse Theatre, Gymnasium Road, Macquarie University. Opening 7 pm 20 February 2016.

“We see here two blood brothers, one Aryan , the other Dravidian. (Pause) Ernest Keethaponcalan, found in a mulla as neither Aryan nor Dravidian, evolved by adoption, through language and culture into a Dravidian. His brother evolved in the same way into an Aryan. Our ethnicities reveal social attributes, not biological differences.”