Performance 02 : The Performance
UNHCR World Refugee Day (Colombo 2017)
The next time the play was performed in
Sri Lanka, commissioned by the UNHCR.
Fifteen year old Shyalina Muthumudalige,
dressed in shorts and a tee-shirt, sat on
top of a desk on stage and addressed her
audience casually.
The Certificate at the UNHCR
Prauda Buwaneka
The impact of a young girl questioning
a group of adults with heavy, complex
questions that no one could really answer
was very powerful. However, attempts
to use this play more as an interruption
than a performance did not materialize.
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