On the boards, and online
Productions
Everything we’ve staged. Some of it you can still watch.
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August 2026 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
Romeo & Juliet නාඩගම
A Sri Lankan jukebox musical on Shakespeare’s love story, in two languages, by Feroze Kamardeen.
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1996 to 2025
Thirty years of it, newest first, from a Macbeth with a rock band to a Neil LaBute at the Punchi. Where a date is vague below, that is because the record is vague, and we would rather say so than invent one.
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2025
Freddy: The Sketch Show
October 9-12, 2025 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
Seven irrationally rational short plays, six actors, many roles. Written by Feroze Kamardeen.
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2025
Reasons to be Pretty
March 27-30, 2025 · Namel Malani Punchi Theatre
Neil LaBute on beauty, self-worth and what people say about each other when they think it will not get back.
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2024
Grow Up Nana 2
November 22-24 and 28-30, 2024 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
The follow-up, and sharper than the first.
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2024
Grow Up Nana! Repeat Show
January 12-14, 2024 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
The first show again, by demand, thirteen months after it opened.
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2023
Grow Up Nana
November 24-25, 2023 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
Feroze Kamardeen alone on stage on Sri Lankan Muslim identity. Where the whole thing started.
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2023
Julius Caesar the Musical
October 5-8, 2023 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
An original musical comedy on the assassination, written by Feroze Kamardeen.
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2023
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
February 17-20, 2023 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
The Off-Broadway musical comedy about every stage of a relationship.
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2022
Freddy 5: Goodbye Nation
August 2022 · Meow Comedy Club
A stand-up comedy show written and directed by Feroze Kamardeen. Still available to rent.
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2020
Arsikland! The Musical 2: The Circle of Strife
March 13-18, 2020 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
The second Arsikland musical. Curfew closed the run partway through.
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2019
Freddy 4: Get Rich Quick
November 13-15, 2019 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
Freddy at the 2019 election, on the subject of getting rich quickly.
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2019
Hamlet at Elsie’s Bar
October 4-8, 2019 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
An original musical about where Shakespeare might have found Hamlet.
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2019
Arsikland! The Musical
March 29-April 2, 2019 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
H.G.H.E. Chaminda Pusswedilla, at last, in a musical of his own.
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2019
The Greatest Rugby Match
February 16, 2019 · Western Province Aesthetic Resort
ArsiCity Butterflies against the Kotaudagama ChilliPowders. One night only.
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2018
Freddy 3: A New Hope
October 18-23, 2018 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
The third Freddy, six nights of political stand-up and sketch.
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2018
The Pillowman
2018
Martin McDonagh’s writer, his brother and two detectives. Exact dates are missing from the record.
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2018
Freddy: One Night Stand
July 7, 2018 · Temple Trees ballroom
One night, in a ballroom, at Temple Trees.
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2018
Fun Home
May 3-7, 2018 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
The Tony-winning musical drawn from Alison Bechdel’s memoir.
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2018
Every Brilliant Thing
February 22-25, 2018 · British Council
Duncan Macmillan’s list of everything worth living for, performed with Jonny Donahoe.
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2017
Freddy Strikes Back
September 14-17, 2017 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
The second Freddy, still funny, still about the country.
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2016
Diary of Freddy
November 24-27, 2016 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
Where Freddy started, and the first world the company built after Pusswedilla.
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2016
Lungs
June 23-26, 2016 · Namel Malini Punchi Theatre
Duncan Macmillan’s two-hander about whether to have a child.
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2014
Thank You for Voting Part 5: The Antire Solooshen Summit
October 16-28, 2014 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
Pusswedilla convenes an international summit. Solutions are promised.
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2014
Men Without Shadows
February 7-9, 2014 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
Sartre in a resistance cell, waiting for the interrogation to resume.
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2013
Thank You for Voting Part 4: Kotaudagama Internashnel Airport & The Cabinet Shuffel
2013
An airport opens. A cabinet is shuffled. Both go about as well as expected.
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2012
Widows
November 23-25, 2012 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
Ariel Dorfman on the women left behind by the disappeared. First staged in 1998, revisited here.
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2011
Thank You For Voting Part 3: The World Peece Sumitt
September 29-October 2, 2011, and January 11-15, 2012 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
ArsikLand hosts its first ever world peece sumitt.
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2011
Noir Part 3: Shades of Darkness
July 15-31, 2011 · Punchi Theatre
The third Noir festival.
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2009
Thank You for Voting Part 2: Hon Puss
June 12-28, 2009 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
Pusswedilla, honourable at last.
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2008
Noir 2
July 2008 · Punchi Theatre
Nine Shel Silverstein dark comedies across two weekends.
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2008
An Enemy of the People
March 28-30, 2008 · Namel Malini Punchi Theatre
Ibsen’s doctor who finds the water is poisoned, staged with the Royal Norwegian Embassy.
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2007
Thank You for Voting
November 2007 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
The first full Pusswedilla show, following his rise into politics.
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2007
Noir Theatre Fest
July 2007 · Punchi Theatre, Borella
A month of dark comedy and darker theatre.
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2006
Venice
September 1-17, 2006 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
The Merchant of Venice, with live music.
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2006
Uh-Merry-Kar
June 2006 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
A romp through American history, and the first appearance anywhere of Chaminda Pusswedilla.
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2005
Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman
2005 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
Dario Fo on Elizabeth I. Exact dates are missing from the record.
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2004
R&J
October 1-10, 2004 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
Romeo and Juliet, musicalised and moved to the present. Twenty-two years before the නාඩගම.
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2003
Big Brother is Watching
June 6-8, 2003 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
Orwell’s 1984, on a Colombo stage.
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2002
Animal Farm
July 4-8, 2002 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
Orwell again, with a Sri Lankan edge and a live rock band.
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2001
The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr
Before 2002
All of Shakespeare, abridged, at speed. A hit before Animal Farm, though the dates are lost.
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1999
The Accidental Death of an Anarchist
May 5-9, 1999 · Lionel Wendt Theatre
Dario Fo relocated to a Sri Lankan police station.
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1997
Julius Caesar: The Anatomy of an Assassination
1997
Caesar as political theatre, set in a modern city-state called Rome.
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1996
The Legend of Macbeth
1996
Macbeth fused with rock music. The company’s beginning.
Also streaming
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Grow Up Nana 2
Written and performed by Feroze Kamardeen.
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Grow Up Nana
The original one-man show.
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Arsikland
Original musicals and political satire featuring H.G.H.E Chaminda Pusswedilla.
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Hamlet at Elsie's Bar
An original musical about how a bard was inspired to write the greatest plays in history.
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Freddy
Sri Lanka's first stand-up comedy show, on culture and politics.
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