Congratulations to S.Shakthidharan & Eamon Flack whose play THE JUNGLE AND THE SEA has been shortlisted for the 2024 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards! Read the judges' comments and see the full shortlist here: bit.ly/JS-VPLA

The Wheeler Centre was honoured to present the 2024 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards at Fed Square last night, celebrating the breadth of extraordinary literary works published in 2023 by Australian writers. Discover more about each of the works here: tinyurl.com/allworksVPLA

.Belvoir's award-winning theatrical epic #CountingAndCracking will be the centrepiece production of Melbourne’s 2024 RISING festival. #belvoirst #unimelb #rising #play #fivestars #risingmelbourne #sydneyfestival #communitas vist.ly/35qhx

A privilege to have seen   #CountingandCracking, Belvoir epic theatrical production in #Melbourne last night. A sophisticated, nuanced capture of complexity of Sri Lanka’s ethnic and class politics between 1956-2004. A masterful piece by writer S. Shakthidharan. Moving.

Arao City Culture Centre (Kumamoto) will be presenting a staged reading of “Counting and Cracking”, an award-winning play by S.Shakthidharan. Learn about 🇦🇺 ’s multicultural society through the play and the post-play conversations on 29- 30 June city.arao.lg.jp/0/8358.html #AJFGrants

#CountingandCracking is one of the best Australian plays I have ever seen. Bravo to all the people who wrote, directed, acted and produced it. Outstanding. If you can, see it! Counting and Cracking - Carriageworks carriageworks.com.au/events/countin…

Saw this excellent play yesterday in Sydney… S. Shakthidharan takes it New York next - watch out for it!

@peterhannam1.bsky.social S. Shakthidharan I saw it last week and in 2019. It's bloody brilliant.

COUNTING AND CRACKING has made it to NYC! After sold-out seasons in Melbourne and Sydney, our team from 6 countries is here at the Public Theatre. From Australia to NYC, we’re honoured to share this story of family, love, and resilience. Performances start Friday at NYU Skirball!

S. Shakthidharan’s Sri Lankan-Australian epic, “Counting and Cracking,” is about democracy, immigration, fragmentation. It’s also the story of a family. “This play is like my soul on a plate,” he says. nytimes.com/2024/09/07/the…

@ggforbes51 . Go see the marvelous play #CountingandCracking at the NYC Skirball to see how fragile democracy can be via a tale of one Sri Lankan family’s history was ripped asunder by “rules” Tix fr The Public Theater - 17 more shows only

Welcome to 2025: bit.ly/2025-Season New stories, old tales, wonders, tragedies, celebrations, transformations. Stories about us here, and stories about the wider world. Some love, some family, some politics, some joy. And a ton of wonderful artists. Join us.

How good it is to see this Australian play #CountingandCracking set in #Sydney and #SriLanka be a critics’ choice in #NYT #BelvoirTheatre nytimes.com/2024/09/12/the… via The New York Times

“Cities can either ask us to discard parts of ourselves to fit in, or ask us who we fully are to help grow and change what that city can be.” What a beautiful line from ⁦⁦S. Shakthidharan⁩ ! And thank you ⁦The.Ink, from Anand Giridharadas⁩ for bringing this to us the.ink/p/counting-and…

.The.Ink, from Anand Giridharadas caught up with S. Shakthidharan this week, and the two talked about how he came to write the story, what he learned while researching his family’s history and deep connection with the history of Sri Lankan democracy. the.ink/p/counting-and…

Not since Tom Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt’ have I read such an aching play on rewatering the roots of one’s ancestry and coming to terms with the bodies of pain that sprout S. Shakthidharan

ArtsHub conducted a poll of some of the country's most prestigious theatre professionals to determine the best Australian plays of the 21st century so far. #theatre #australiantheatre #australianarts #play #playwright #austheatre #performingarts #top5 vist.ly/3mk5tvt

TWO shows supported by us have made the ArtsHub ‘5 Best Australian plays of the 21st Century’ list! 🎭 #1: ‘Counting and Cracking’ by S. Shakthidharan produced by Kurinji and Belvoir #4: ‘Fangirls’ by Yve Blake at Lyric Hammersmith Theatre produced by Sonia Friedman Productions

In the midst of conflict, the remarkable story of how a palatial family home in Colombo was dismantled and taken to Sydney to provide sanctuary for new generations. S. Shakthidharan theguardian.com/books/2025/sep…