Visakesa Chandrasekaram

In a dilapidated rural courthouse a mother seeks justice for her son abducted by paramilitary men during the 1988/89 insurgency in Sri Lanka

A former rebel returns home from military detention searching for his missing lover whose plight was yet to be revealed by the rebel’s soothsaying mother.

Set in Sri Lanka, where old colonial laws permit the imprisonment of gay and lesbian people, 'Frangipani' tells the story of two young men and one woman entangled in a lustful – and incredibly dangerous - love triangle.

In the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war, which began in 1983 and ended in 2009, five women collaborate with a team of theatre practitioners and academic researchers, sharing the horrific violence they endured during the conflict as part of a process of recovery.