The Travelling Circus Comes to Town
The Travelling Circus at Nuga Sevana.
Photograph by Twiggy.
Ten years ago, Mind Adventures Theatre was created by three wonderful young women - one of whom I am honoured to say I know and love very dearly. They did this with the intention of ’shaking things up a little’, and boy, did they manage that. They brought to the Colombo stage something quite different from the productions that dominated the Sri Lankan English theatre scene at the time - something quite different from the large-scale, big-budget performances of West End and Broadway musicals and the drawing room comedies that drew theatre-goers to the Lionel Wendt. And indeed, their mission was to experiment with theatrical genres, new trends and alternate venues. All Mind Adventures’ little ‘experiments’ thus far have turned out rather well, as you all know.
Its Artistic Director Tracy Holsinger is a well-known name now - a name synonymous with thought-provoking and cutting-edge theatre. Mind Adventures has always worked with the best actors on the Sri Lankan stage, while constantly looking for, finding, honing and finally introducing undiscovered talent to the theatre lovers of the day.
It has been my privilege to know and work with Tracy - she has taught me nearly every important thing I know about acting and many other important things about life in general - further more, working with her has brought me into contact with some of the most intelligent, talented young people I know - all of whom I love and admire endlessly.
So when we all sat down together to figure out what to do for Mind Adventures’ 10th Anniversary Production, needless to say, I knew even then that the results were bound to be interesting, to say the least.
And so The Travelling Circus is coming to town.
This show to me is the epitome of everything we are as a group and perfectly summarizes how we like to work - it will showcase for you perfectly all the madness, the crazy ideas, the fantasies, the fears and above all, the singular vision of a group of people who want to produce something that is more than just OK. It will display all the quirks, the idiosyncrasies, the hard-work and all the absolute, unadulterated fun we have had doing this for you, with each other, all under the keen watch of The Great Dictator Director.
Come and see The Travelling Circus from the 26th - 30th of November 2009 at Nuga Sevana - located on the Cathedral Grounds, Bauddhaloka Mawatha. Watch as the creatures of the night crawl out of the trees, and fantastical birds take flight, and talking animals and non-speaking humans make the stage their own. Watch as the results of all our slightly insane, totally unhinged, completely hilarious experiments are revealed for all to see.
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“thought-provoking” “cutting-edge” “epitome” “great “> oh boy!
is there a money back guarantee too?
i thought successful spa…sorry markete… sorry pr … sorry just interested bloggers nowadays dispense with self promoting superlatives.
Comment by sittingnut — November 3, 2009 @ 4:12 pm
Monkey praising their own tail.
Ever heard of non subjective crtic writing?
Wait, non of you have any professional quali do you?
Comment by Donkey — November 3, 2009 @ 4:15 pm
This post is not about praising myself at all - or even about praising our upcoming show. Whether it’s good or bad is for you to decide once you’ve seen it. If you’d bothered to read through, you would see that the only things it praises are Tracy and Mind Adventures - whose work I have followed for many years and always found inspiring and good - and yes, I’m going to say it out loud. This is not meant to be a subjective critique obviously - I am not well-placed to write such a piece since I am IN this show and have been in many others by Mind Adventures. Subjective criticism is up to others to write. This is just a post to promote our new show, and hopefully get some ticket sales!
Now what’s so wrong with that? I am allowed to do that aren’t I? On my own blog?
Comment by electra — November 4, 2009 @ 5:44 am
True sitting nut, there should actually be a money back
guarantee.Despite cause of speculation but in the end its extravagantly ambitious or aspiring but not altogether, as proved by Mark J. Smith of the Sunday Times. To digress it seems that this silly child has totally fallen for her own insidious meandering off on tangents, the trusty steed tangential 
I suppose those rubbernecks have an advocate in the form of cathartic ovulation in meaningless blog posts. Well said my friend.
To sum up:
1) A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
2) A fool and his money are soon parted
3) The LHC *large hadron collider could create a mini black hole thus sucking us all in and making this post completely pointless.
Homina Homina Homina
Oh yeah, also
4) LETS GET TOGETHER YEAH YEAH YEAH WE CAN HAVE A SWIMMING TIME!!!! LETS GET TOGETHER WHADDAYA SAY, LETS EGT TOGETHER EVERYDAY
Comment by Curious Frank — November 4, 2009 @ 6:51 am
lol @ curiously secretive
somebody sure feels hurt.
Comment by sittingnut — November 9, 2009 @ 5:02 pm