The national finals of the children’s Mashramani competition continued yesterday with the calypso and dramatic poetry competitions at the National Cultural Centre. First place finisher in the 8-10 ...

ONE would feel happier about the future of poetry on the stage were it not for the defensiveness of those who proclaim it. Poetry had used the theatre and the theatre had used poetry for thousands of ...

Poetry on stage — or poetic drama — is a natural extension of poetry on the page. The ancient Greeks wrote their great tragedies and comedies in verse, as did the Romans. Medieval morality plays such ...

IT is probably safe to say that since the days of Shirley, that is, since the experience of men who might have known Shakespeare, the present is the first occasion upon which two dramatic poems, of ...

Songs are canvases for emotions. Depending on the mood of the composer, a song can be flirty and fun, dark and brooding, or any other kind of tone. That’s the beauty of music—it’s not about the notes, ...

Once I wrote that perhaps, the ‘Kutru’ (utterance) in the ancient grammatical work Tholkappiyam could have become ‘koothu’, indicating theatre. This “atrocious statement”, as it was described, stirred ...