By S. Shakthidharan and Eamon Flack. Belvoir Street Theatre. Nov 12 – Dec 18, 2022.
Following his applauded Sri Lankan epic, Counting and Cracking, S. Shakthidharan returns again to his birth country and rejoins Belvoir’s Eamon Flack to co-direct this co-written, brilliant work.
The Jungle and the Sea unfolds against the last decade of the 26 year old civil war between the Sinhalese government and Tamil Tigers in the north, and the torturous recovery and reconciliation which still continues (along now with Sri Lanka’s economic and political bankruptcy).