THE ONE WHO LOVES YOU SO
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Arun Welandawe-Prematilleke
CAST I Brandon Ingram, Benjamin Aluwihare
LIGHTING DESIGN I Ryan Holsinger
SET DESIGN I Thilini Perera
“A brazen boundary breaker…an outright attack on Sri Lanka’s conservatism,” — The Sunday Observer
Bold, fearless and unapologetic . . . Not only beautiful and painful, it [is] necessary.” — Ceylon Today
“Its power and voice lingered — the dialogue so charged with meaning, so cleverly constructed to toe the line between social criticism and the playful language of attraction . . . the play felt as subversive as [it] felt real.” — Kajal Magazine
WINNER - Gratiaen Prize for Literature, 2018
Though sex between men remains technically illegal in Sri Lanka, the gay population of its capital find ways to live out their sexual and romantic desires. Vidhura is a trust-fund baby slumming it in a rundown studio apartment. Nick is a British expat chasing hedonism abroad. When the two men meet for a casual Grindr hookup, what is meant to be a one-night stand turns into something wholly unexpected. Over two nights, they navigate sex, love, and the fleeting intimacy that arises when one is escaping his life—and the other is trapped in his.
PUBLICATION
Available through Perera-Hussein Publishing
