Born: Established: 1934
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Another play by MacIntryre, as yet unperformed and unpublished (February 2006) is 'The Fountains of Paradise', a play in three scenes, written in Australia. Of this play, MacIntyre writes that it 'was first written in the mid eighties after the shock of meeting a little boy after many years, grown to be a man, refelecting the change from the meek and the obedient to the vibrant and fearless challenger of accepted 'truth'. The play was then put away, unfinished. In 1990 this young man, Richard de Zoysa - poet, playwright, actor, journalist - was murdered by agents of the Government of Sri Lanka, in the context of the youth uprising of the years 1989-90. I then took up the play again and completed it, in 1990. It is allegorical.' (Personal correspondence.)
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Author writes in these languages: ENGLISH
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