Title: To be or Knot to be, a one hour 20 minute comedy will go on the boards at Punchi Theatre, Borella on November 3 at 7.30pm.
The play revolves around a Muslim family. According to the playwright Aslam Marikkar: We at Sri Theatre Company think, this is the first time in Sri Lankan theatre that non Muslims have the opportunity to enjoy the inconsistencies and jolly traditions observed by Muslims. Marikkar likes to call himself an Existentialist Muslim, and believes, it is God’s given right to man that he question his environment. “If God wanted blind followers he would simply have engineered automatic solar powered robots, but then he didn’t,” a line from the play. The first step to any form of reconciliation is to be able to laugh at ourselves, believes Aslam the writer of To be or Knot to be.
The cast for the play includes, Sri Theatre Company Ruwanthi as Zeena, Anaz as Feroze, Chanaka as Nazeer and Mithma as Rukaiya. Sri Theatre Company believes, this play would change the way people think about another’s religion and realize that in Sri Lanka all religions adhere to a uniquely Lankan set of taboos and traditions.