Student Research Symposium, Drama & Theatre and Image Arts Unit
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Item Resonances of an Enduring Lament: The ‘Trojan Women’ as a War Play(Drama & Theatre and Image Arts Unit, Department of Fine Arts, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Abeysekara, C.J.War creates problems that are common to people across space and time. One such is the breakup of the family unit. The Greeks fought the Trojan War in prehistoric times upon which is based the play “Trojan Women” authored by Euripides. It is important to search the relevance of this Greek play written in 415 BCE, and the society in which it was produced to the Sri Lankan society of the 21st century in the point of view of the producer and director of the Sinhala drama. What common factors did they see between these two societies to open a discussion of an ancient war of the western world? This question arose with the experience of being part of the production of this play at a university level. Here I’m going to do this study by using the both primary and secondary sources. I hope to discuss this production as a Sri Lankan drama and its relation to my central topic. I hope to discuss and develop the central topic with the guidance of the play’s producer, senior lecturer Mr. Priyankara Rathnayake, of the of Drama, theatre and image arts unit of the University of Kelaniya and discussions with the actors, costume designers, makeup artists and music directors, all whom were students of the university.Item Was the Conflict Presented in The Drama ‘Yerma’ Influenced by Contemporary Spanish Society?(Drama & Theatre and Image Arts Unit, Department of Fine Arts, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Wanninayake, D.P.K.Garcia Lorca was a Spanish dramatist who wrote many dramas based on the 1930’s social background. The drama “Yerma” which was written in 1933 highlights the agricultural background of Spain at the time and discloses the social background of the above period. There are three main characters in this drama. They are Yuwan, Yerma, and Victor. The conflict of the play arises from the Yuwan’s inability to give to his wife a baby. She can have a baby by marrying Victor without concerning her former husband. However, she was trapped by social values and she is so concerned about the dignity and purity of a woman. Yerma pressurized by this conflict. Due to that, Yerma at the end of the drama ending their dream to have a child killed Yuwan. Therefore, at the end, the lives of both Yerma and Yuwan were destroyed. Here, they have to face the conflict between the real value of human beings and social structure. I argue that social values have greatly influenced the characters of this drama. Finally, I conclude that the social values and social background of a particular country are always connected with the lives of people of that particular country.