Sun 29th Mar | General Audience | Sinhala | 20:00 – 22:00 (120 mins) | in the Open – Air Theatre

Kolamba Hathey Thorana is a devised performance where eight musicians, singers, and actors invite the audience to imagine a pandal—not built with lights and fabric, but created through their own voices and bodies. The performance unfolds through three boxes—The Love Box, The Marriage Box, and The Struggle Box—where characters shift roles, stories repeat in new forms, and each perspective reshapes the truth.

In the Love Box, a school assembly is disrupted by a rejected student demanding justice, leading to a confrontation between despair and love. The Marriage Box reimagines the same characters in a tale of forced unions, fractured relationships, and loneliness. The Struggle Box situates these tensions within a larger political backdrop, where personal conflicts mirror social unrest and spiral into violence, betrayal, and multiple tragic endings.

The performance culminates in an “evidence box” where sixteen voices—friends, neighbors,

witnesses—offer fragmented testimonies, each pointing to different causes behind the deaths. By the end, the audience, too, is invited to act as witnesses, moving from character to character, carrying empathy for all.