Fri 27th Mar | General Audience | Sinhala | 14:30 -16:00 (95 mins) | in the Mihilaka Medura

අට වන බුවනෙක Ata Wana Buwaneka is a sharp-witted political satire that strips away the masks of the ruling class to reveal the opportunism and cunning lurking beneath. While the name suggests a king from ancient chronicles, this “Buwaneka” is a purely modern creation—the kind of “leader” who meticulously crafts a facade of service to fulfill personal ambitions.

The story unfolds against the chaotic backdrop of the “Aragalaya” (People’s Struggle), specifically on one of the most tumultuous days in the nation’s recent history. In a desperate bid to escape a retaliatory mob, our protagonist snatches a fallen police cap and seeks refuge in a massage parlor. His arrival triggers a hilarious and disastrous chain reaction: a terrified young man leaps from a fourth-story window, crashing straight into the middle of a traditional wedding ceremony in the house below.

As the wedding turns into a catastrophe and the world outside descends into riotous uncertainty, the cunning “Atawana Buwaneka” begins weaving a masterful plan to exit the chaos—not as a fugitive, but as a hero.

Sat 28th Mar | General Audience | Sinhala & English| 16:30 -17:15 (45 mins) | New Theatre

As Sri Lanka’s pioneering Sinhala improv group, TRACK ද? delivers high-energy, interactive performances. Actors turn spontaneous audience prompts into unscripted drama and comedy through a series of fast-paced games.

Sat 28th Mar | General Audience | Tamil | 15:00 – 15:30 (30 mins) | in the Mihilaka Medura

Minungal tells the story of a young couple living in the upcountry. In their dreams, they imagine a beautiful and happy life together. In this dream world, they understand each other, speak kindly, and enjoy simple moments of love and harmony. Everything feels bright and perfect. However, their real life is very different. In reality, they struggle with poor communication, misunderstandings, and emotional distance. The couple finds it difficult to understand each other’s feelings and expectations. Small problems grow into bigger conflicts. The drama moves between the dream world and real life, showing a strong contrast between what they wish their relationship could be and what it actually is. Through these shifting scenes, the play explores themes of love, expectations, communication, and the challenges faced by young couples.

The Shiny highlights how dreams can reflect our deepest desires, while reality often demands patience, understanding, and effort to build a meaningful relationship

Sat 28th Mar | General Audience | Tamil  | 19:30 – 21:00 (90 mins) | Mihilaka Medura

The play எனக்கொரு கனவுண்டு… Enakku Oru Kanavundhu… (I Have A Dream) approaches war, the memories of war, and its lingering psychological impact through an abstract and darkly comic lens. Rather than representing violence in a direct or realistic way, the performance treats war as something fragmented—an echo that continues to live inside bodies, language, and everyday gestures. The play uses elements of absurdity and tragic humour to reveal how trauma can appear in unexpected and sometimes uncomfortable forms.
At its core, the work explores the strange and complicated ways in which human beings express their emotions. People rarely reveal their feelings directly; instead, they hide them behind performances, roles, and carefully constructed behaviours. These emotional disguises—sometimes protective, sometimes deceptive—become a central focus of the play. The characters move between sincerity and performance, between confession and concealment.
Through this process, the play invites the audience to question what is genuine and what is acted. In doing so, it creates a space where memory, identity, and emotion are constantly shifting, exposing the fragile theatre through which people attempt to understand themselves and the aftermath of war.

Sun 29th Mar | General Audience | Sinhala | 17:30 – 19:15 (105 mins) | in the New Theatre

In Ape Gedara Gini Thiyayida (Will They Burn Our House Down), a group of female friends are gathering for a long-awaited school reunion at the home of one of them. The occasion is made even more special by the attendance of a friend who now lives abroad. As a surprise for the visiting friend, the others have invited the singer who was her favourite back in her school days.

What most do not know, however, is that one of the friends is in an extramarital affair with this singer. On the day of the reunion, an unforeseen incident sets off a chain of dramatic events. The tensions that follow are further inflamed by a coordinated social media campaign. The night builds to a fever pitch, and even the house hosting the reunion stands in danger of being burned down.

Written & Directed by : Rajitha Dissanayake

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.