ABSTRACT
This chapter examines three plays devised with Sri Lankan casts during the immediate post-war period. The event that sparked the 1983 riots in Sri Lanka was the killing of 13 Sinhala soldiers by Tamil militants in the north of the country. In the play, a little child flees a Thought Curfew that is fast spreading across the world, rendering people instantly unthinking as it engulfs them. The act of devising does not end with the striking of the set or the fall of the curtain. In the play, a little child flees a Thought Curfew that is fast spreading across the world, rendering people instantly unthinking as it engulfs them. As the girl escapes from the sudden and terrifying strangeness that emerges first within her own family; she encounters, beyond the edges of her world, different manifestations of the Thought Curfew within parallel worlds of which she previously knew nothing.
