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 ...
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