During a time when youth constitutes the largest cohort ever to enter the transition to adulthood, and yet face costly challenges such as low quality education, high rates of unemployment, crime, early pregnancy and the highest rates of HIV/AIDS infections the world has yet seen, policy makers' demand to tap their enormous potential is urgent. But can the world create a future for youth without their input?
"So did you hear the story of the Johnstone twins?" This is the seemingly random question with which the next musical to hit Colombo, opens. Or as the playwright Willy Russell himself puts it, not exactly a musical, but a play with music.
"Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!"– Sir Walter Scott.
NOTE: I'm not by any means undermining the importance of English or anything productive our gracious colonizers have bestowed upon us. I'm just stating a few things as is.
During a time when youth constitutes the largest cohort ever to enter the transition to adulthood, and yet face costly challenges such as low quality education, high rates of unemployment, crime, early pregnancy and the highest rates of HIV/AIDS infections the world has yet seen, policy makers' demand to tap their enormous potential is urgent. But can the world create a future for youth without their input?
"So did you hear the story of the Johnstone twins?" This is the seemingly random question with which the next musical to hit Colombo, opens. Or as the playwright Willy Russell himself puts it, not exactly a musical, but a play with music. 
"Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!"– Sir Walter Scott.
NOTE: I'm not by any means undermining the importance of English or anything productive our gracious colonizers have bestowed upon us. I'm just stating a few things as is. 