SUMMA DÆMONICA BIBLIOGRAFIA

COWARD: 2016

Matt Coward

Universities of York and York St John

Of Demons and Drama: Ritual Syncretism of Sinhala Exorcism and Forum Theatre

Paper presented at Translating Buddhism,

York St John University (1 July 2016),

8 p. (pdf.)
 

Intro

„In 1999 Ranjini Obeyesekere published her monograph Sri Lankan Theatre in a Time of Terror: Political Satire in the Permitted Space. A small, bracketed clause on page sixty-two caught my attention when reading this text back in 2014, and sparked an eighteen-month research journey. A journey that not only brought me into the world of Sri Lankan folk praxis, and the engaging world of community theatre, but also led me to complete my Masters by research. That phrase was: ‘Boal’s Forum Theatre has not caught on” (p.1).