Ernest MacIntyre

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Ernest MacIntyre (1935 - ) is a playwright in the English language.

During the 1960s MacIntyre was hailed as the most prolific and successful of Sri Lankan playwrights in English. He formed a performing group, 'Stage and Set', which presented established international plays as well as those written by him. His plays were usually performed at the Lionel Wendt theatre in Colombo. During this time there was cross-pollination between the English and Sinhala theatres, primarily due to Macintyre.

MacIntyre's emigration in the 1970s brought a lull in creativity in the English theatre in Sri Lanka.

[edit] Plays

• Let's Give Them Curry, An Australian-Asian Comedy in 3 Acts (1981)
• Rasanayagam's Last Riot (1990)