The Legacy of Stylistic Theatre in the Creation of a Modern Sinhala Drama in Sri Lanka

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Lakshmi D. Bulathsinghala

The Legacy of Stylistic Theatre in the Creation of a Modern Sinhala Drama in Sri Lanka

Lakshmi D. Bulathsinghala

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Routledge
29 September 2025

The Arts: General & Reference; Performance art; Theatre Studies; Folk & traditional music; Literary studies: plays & playwrights

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

This book explores the development of Sinhala stylistic drama from its earliest manifestations to the post-independence era.

Bulathsinghala examines the impact of indigenous and imported folk theatrical forms on the work of the most significant postcolonial stylistic dramatists and on key plays that they produced. In the process, the book explores a number of myths and misunderstandings regarding Sri Lanka’s folk heritage and seeks to establish more reliable information on the principal indigenous Sri Lankan folk dramatic forms and their characteristics. At the same time, by drawing connections between folk drama and the post-independence stylistic theatrical movement, the author demonstrates the essential role of the former in Sinhala culture prior to the advent of Western and other influences and shows how both continue to inflect Sri Lankan drama today.

This book will help to open the field of South Asian drama studies to an audience consisting not only of scholars and students but also of general readers who are interested in the fields of drama and theatre and Asian studies.

By: Lakshmi D. Bulathsinghala
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781032079622
ISBN 10: 1032079622
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 29 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Lakshmi D. Bulathsinghala is Instructor in the Department of Theatre, and also teaches for the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, at Binghamton University (State University of New York), U.S.A.