Theatre course to create an all-round artiste
View(s):
Obinamuni Gamini De Silva, president, Shakespeare centre
Shakespeare centre Sri Lanka is calling applications for the academic years 2020 – 2021. Started as a general course in 2014, study programme is collaborated with the Royal Shakespeare company and the western Australian academy of performing arts and now it is developed to a graduate study programme. The course is free of charge and classes are conducted on Sundays, Poya days and public holidays in Colombo.
The course includes lectures and studies of the annual inter-school Shakespeare challenge and the participants are getting opportunities to plays in Shakespeare Centre productions like ‘Hamlet’, ‘Julius Caesar’ (Sinhala), ‘Othello’, ‘Macbeth’ (English and Sinhala) which would be performed during the Shakespeare theatre festival in 2020. A midsummer Night’s dream, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet are the other research and practical plays included in the course of studies. The participants also will get an opportunity to study cinema, with Centre’s cinematic production ‘Hamlet’ which is to be filmed in 2020.
The course includes subjects such as theatre and drama with studies on works of Shakespeare in English medium, theatre and drama in Sinhala medium, ballet, opera, acting, cinema, voice training, singing, technical activities, Shakespeare drama, applied theatre, educational drama, street drama, mirror acting, fencing and patterns of the acting.
Dr. Rahul Perera who is the vice president of the Shakespeare centre Sri Lanka said that this course will help to make an educated, intelligent, ideological and disciplined artistes.
Details to join the course could be obtained by writing to Obinamuni Gamini De Silva, the president, Shakespeare centre Sri Lanka, 327, Darley Road, Colombo 10 or
by calling 077 8516 123.
Pix by Nilan Maligaspe