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The Jungle and the Sea, follow-up to Counting and Cracking, uses theatre as a safe space to discuss Sri Lankan civil war – By Hannah Reich and Kim Jirik Source : abc When S. Shakthidharan first told his mum that he wanted to look into their family history, she quickly shut him down, telling him: “That is a very stupid idea.” She then refused to talk to him about it again. Anandavalli, a Tamil dancer, fled Sri Lanka in 1983 at the outbreak of the civil war, settling with her family in Western Sydney. It was 2008 and, faced with a wall of silence from his mum, Shakthidharan (also known as Shakthi) secretly turned to a grand-aunt in London. “She was the first person in my family to open up to me and it became a waterfall of information. I started learning about all these things that I’d never known. It ...

THE JUNGLE AND THE SEA AT BELVOIR ST THEATRE View the rehersal photos in the video below Please view additional photos of Rehearsal photos on eLanka FB S.Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack, the award-winning creative powerhouses behind Counting and Cracking, return with The Jungle and the Sea, showing from 12 November 2022 to 18 December 2022 at the Belvoir Street Theatre. The Jungle and the Sea takes the classical stories of the Mahabharatha and Antigone, and builds a new epic bringing to the forefront decades of untold histories of the Sri Lankan civil war. Themes that all Sri Lankans have a connection to – surviving loss, rebuilding lives and discovering what a reimagined future can bring. The Jungle and the Sea is a companion piece to Belvoir’s critically acclaimed Counting and Cracking, following the production’s successful tour to Edinburgh and Birmingham in August 2022. It is rare to see a nuanced ...