Asinamali

Directed by : Poojitha De Mel

Priyankara Rathnayake, Dharmapriya Dias, Vishwajith Gunasekera, Sanjaya Hettiarachchi and Nishshanka Madulaarachchi the play won seven awards including the Best Direction, Music and Translation at the National Theater festival.

Translated by Nadee Kammallaweera and Poojitha De Mel, Music by Misha (Theja Buddhika Rodrigo)

Adapted from Mbongeni Ngema's Broadway production of "Asinamali". On the prison yard on Robben Island, a man named Nelson Mandela told Msizi Dube "Go and do it for all of us, for all our people. So one day we may join you in a free South Africa." After Msizi Dube was released residents of Lamontville Township, with anger and passion in their hearts, demonstrated against proposed rent increases, and led the crowds with a cry of ASINAMALI from