Some
days before when I read an article Vikalpa web site, noted that drama Theth Bomi
and Nadeeka Bandara, directress I never knew.
Then
few days passed I had read this article, at The BMICH after maestro Kemadasa's ''Obada
Mama Viya'' concert, young gay came to me and politely explained about a drama
and the theatre group of them and said support them buying a ticket of that drama
the Theth Boomi.
So,
I watched that astonishing theater experience at Royal Thaprobanian intimate
theatre on that historical and hysterical day of 26th October 2018,
the day of betrayal, assert us again and again which history repeat hysterical
and cyclic way in samsara- karmic circle. I wonder what's the destiny of
directress of the Theth Boomi and what's the way of theater group like that in
hegemonic, puritan, male dominated, patriarchal context of Sri Lanka.
When
I watching the performance at Royal Thaphrobanian, I felt like watching a series
of Goya's paintings, such as Witches' Sabbath, The Great He-Goat, Witches' Flight. That was the tempest of Asian witch hunting of
everyday life and the cyclone of female desire in asylum of patriarchal south
Asian context, which all sedatives of neo liberal post feminism, consumerism
and post modernism fails for that insanity. But I didn’t agree it’s a mere
cruel theater experience. Basically it's not generic like that way, it is a
hallucinatory theater of Strindberg and Peter Weiss. So like that or like Mo
yang's novels, Hallucination never stabilize as a real or as a fantasy in the
Theth Boomi. The critic K.K. Saman Kumara wrote in the book ''Theth Boomi Vichara
Sanhitha'', co published by My Voice Theatre and Agahas publishers, about Theth
Boomi and impressionism.
Nadeeka's
thinking intensely based on polarity and build tension between that. Its component
of intangible stream of consciousness based on borderline syndrome, not in a clinical
sense. Her mind and soul have two-way switch which shift one polar in to
another. It's not lesbian separatist or bisexual or heterosexual coding. It's
an intangible. her drive is primitive utopian communism which reject state, patriarchy,
language, codes and the name of the father. In the criticism of K.K. Saman Kumara,
he says ''duality between the Chaos and TOE of male and female universe''. That’s
the bi-polar or borderline syndrome in other words I had note. I think she is
not a mere feminist. she has broader view of existence and entity of human
soul, and historical context of the patriarchal system.
The
drama Theth Boomi is the suicidal attack in orthodox male dominated theater and
going beyond Sarah Kane's works I watched in European theater. The Asian
feminine soul and ontological view of Nadeeka Bandara, transcending orthodox feminist
epistemology. Theth Boomi is an avant-garde theatrical mission against postmodern theatre.
And radical feminist reincarnation against neo liberal post feminism.
