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The Travails of War in Lanka Underscored in a New Play in Sydney-by Michael Roberts<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

\"Travails<\/p>\n

Blindfolded matriarch Gowrie (Anandavalli) and her firebrand daughter Abi (Kalieaswari Srinivasan) in The Jungle and the Sea at Belvoir St theatre in Sydney.<\/em>\u00a0Photograph: Sriram Jeyaraman<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Source:<\/span><\/strong>Thuppahis<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\"MichaelSteve Dow<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0@dowsteve<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0in a review in The Guardian,\u00a018 November 2022<\/a>\u2026 the play being entitled \u201cThe Jungle and the Sea\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sri Lankan civil war drama lifts joy above traumThis play by the xcreaators of the Helpmann-winning Counting and Cracking shows people living and loving despite danger, but sometimes minimises the horror.<\/span><\/p>\n

A<\/strong>\u00a0blindfolded woman, wearing a sari, places a conch shell on the ground. It might serve as a ritualistic trumpet or a reminder of a Sri Lankan beach towards the end of the country\u2019s 26-year civil war \u2013 when tens of thousands of bodies lay scattered on its sand as though they had fallen from the sky.<\/span><\/p>\n

She then dances slowly, sorrowfully, with precise mime and hand gestures to signal her pain. We soon learn this matriarch, Gowrie, had taken a vow many years earlier to wear the blindfold until her four children could be reunited, after her only son was swept away with the\u00a0Tamil Tigers<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 a group the Sinhalese-controlled government branded terrorists.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

In this silent, impactful opening scene of\u00a0The Jungle and the Sea<\/a>,\u00a0Anandavalli<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 in her first acting role \u2013 brings to Gowrie her own experience: first, as artistic director of the\u00a0Lingalayam Dance Company<\/a>, notably in the classical Indian dance form\u00a0bharata natyam<\/a>; and also as a survivor of trauma herself.<\/span><\/p>\n

Co-written and co-directed by Anandavalli\u2019s playwright son, S Shakthidharan with Belvoir\u2019s artistic director Eamon Flack, the play is a companion piece to 2019 epic\u00a0Counting and Cracking<\/a>, which aimed to fill the silences between first- and second-generation Sri Lankan-Australian refugees about their shared history. It went on to win seven Helpmann awards, and\u00a0recently toured to Edinburgh<\/a>\u00a0and Birmingham.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the long development process for\u00a0Counting and Cracking<\/em><\/strong>, Anandavalli gradually opened up to her son about fleeing Sri Lanka for Australia, and agreed to act in this latest work. It features seven other actors plus two musicians playing\u00a0carnatic<\/a>\u00a0instruments including the lute-like\u00a0saraswati veena<\/a>, and percussion such as a\u00a0mridangam<\/a>\u00a0and a\u00a0ghatam<\/a>\u00a0clay pot.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like its predecessor,\u00a0The Jungle and the Sea<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is another achievement of sustained feeling and empathy, of insight into chaos, power and the human instinct for joy and survival. This is all the more remarkable given the simplicity of the production, with a revolving stage used at different speeds to indicate travel between eras and locations, and little reliance on props. There is no scenery apart from bullet holes running the width of the theatre walls.\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

(L-R) Rajan Velu, Kalieaswari Srinivasan and Anandavalli in a scene from The Jungle and the Sea.<\/em>\u00a0Photograph: Sriram Jeyaraman<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

While Shakthidharan and Flack\u2019s earlier play charted the origins of the conflict and was set mainly in the capital of Colombo on the west coast,\u00a0The Jungle and the Sea<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0shifts the focus to northern Sri Lanka, where the violence was concentrated. It is focused on 1995, the war\u2019s final year of 2009, and the present day in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shakthidharan shows people living and loving despite danger and death \u2013 but this new material carries risk. While\u00a0Counting and Cracking<\/em>\u00a0aimed to help Sri Lankans heal and feel a part of the Australian story and endeavoured to provide a space for many truths across religious and ethnic lines, there is potential for retraumatisation from the violent events recounted in\u00a0The Jungle and the Sea<\/em><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps this is why that violence is portrayed stylistically, with characters smearing their faces with blood to denote death and then walking away \u2013 a too-subtle strategy which dramatically undersells a couple of moments. A wedding across religious lines during bombing and shelling also risks minimising the horrors of war, although Shakthidharan succeeds in his clear intent to \u201cdrive an arrow\u201d through media images of \u201chelpless brown people\u201d, and instead show Sri Lankans \u201csurviving and loving and living\u201d. There are also a couple of repetitive spots in the second act that could do with a trim, particularly around the family\u2019s journey to find the brother, Ahilan (Biman Wimalaratne).<\/span><\/p>\n

But performances are finely honed. Bollywood actor Prakash Belawadi, who played the patriarch in\u00a0Counting and Cracking,<\/em>\u00a0returns to play the father, Siva, who is poignantly convincing when blinded in the war, and amusing in his reaction when his youngest daughter Lakshmi (Emma Harvie) comes out as a \u201clesbian atheist\u201d during a well-calibrated comic scene at an expensive Sydney restaurant.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0Siva (Prakash Belawadi) and Lakshmi (Emma Harvie) in a comic scene set in an upmarket Sydney restaurant.<\/em>\u00a0Photograph: Sriram Jeyaraman<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Nadie Kammallaweera, who was also in\u00a0Counting and Cracking<\/em>, segues neatly between the widely varying ages of her two characters, daughter Madlu and eccentric but wise Devla. And Kalieaswari Srinivasan plays firebrand daughter Abi with gusto, marrying across sides a Sinhalese groom, Himal (Rajan Velu), then trying to light a funeral pyre for her sibling, risking the wrath of the state in a denouement reminiscent of Antigone\u2019s defiance.<\/span><\/p>\n

The play will prompt important conversations about the Sri Lankan government killing its own citizens during the war, turning heavy machinery upon them or encouraging them to take shelter at church or hospital before bombing such gathering places.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wise words translated to English from devotional Tamil poetry ultimately take centre stage with appeals to our better selves, even as war sloganeering twists language and we are reminded love itself can be \u201cabused, betrayed, sensationalised\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

The final dance is saved for the matriarch Gowrie, whom poetic licence gifts the sight of her children once again, as fretted strings and double-barreled drums play out.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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