Blowhards: Braggarts, Boasters & Bastards
(2013, 2015, 2016)
Written and Directed by Arun Welandawe-Prematilleke
BLOWHARDS consists of three satirical 20-minute plays that focus on social issues. Each of the plays takes a humourous view on Colombo society at large and their responses and actions towards a particular subject.
‘Tea/Coffee’ looks at armchair activism, ‘Eco-Warriors’ on environmental issues and ‘The Corn’ on political discourse within a family. All three look at social conventions and our own self-image and how they form our opinions and the stances we take on topical issues, the production harpoons the facile and facetious in us all.
Tea/Coffee
Ruvin de Silva, Thanuja Jayawardene
Watch Tea/Coffee: http://vimeo.com/82248477
Eco Warriors
Leah Bazalgette, Pia Hatch, Tracy Jayasinghe, Ryan Holsinger
The Corn
Tracy Holsinger, Shanuki De Alwis, Brandon Ingram
Read the Sunday Times review here