The Serpent’s Ajay Chowdhury is played by Amesh Edireweera: What else has he been in?
Thu Apr 08, 2021 at 1:29am ET
Netflix’s new action-thriller The Serpent has been leaving its audience with major chills.
The series follows the real-life crimes of con-man and serial killer Charles Sobhraj (Tahar Rahim). Along with his girlfriend, Marie-Andrée Leclerc (Jenna Coleman), Sobhraj went on a murder spree throughout Thailand, Nepal, and India, targetting Western travelers.
His victims were often on the young side, as he was known for having a tick against “hippies.”
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Amesh Edireweera plays Ajay Chowdhury, Sobhraj’s associate. He is able to sympathize with his character, recognizing that he is a man who “came from nothing.”
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Marking International Womenâs Day in a week-long festival online, the SWAPâra organisation â Supporting Women and Parents in Opera â is celebrating female composers, both past and present, whose music has not been sufficiently known, if at all. Singers from seven different conservatoires appear in the Forgotten Voices series, spotlighting no fewer than 30 composers from Europe and the Americas.
Students from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama â coached by mezzo-soprano and SWAP-ra co-founder, Kitty Whately â inaugurated proceedings with a livestreamed concert featuring three Welsh composers and one from Scotland. Morfydd Owen, who had seemed assured of a bright future, was just 26 when she died in 1918 from complications following an appendectomy. All her songs had a light and natural flow, but it was Gweddi y Pechadur (Prayer of the Sinner), a Welsh favourite, which came over most effectively in tenor
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By Ian Youngs
image copyrightMarc Brenner
image captionThe cast of Our Lady of Blundellsands had a run of a week before the show was cut short
Last March, Liverpool s Everyman theatre opened its new play, Our Lady of Blundellsands, starring Josie Lawrence and written by Jonathan Harvey.
After a week, it closed again.
That was when Covid-19 shut all theatres, and most have stayed dark since. But what has happened to people involved in the performing arts over the past 12 months?
Some of those who worked on Our Lady of Blundellsands give a snapshot of what has happened over the past year - from cast members, to backstage staff who ended up working in warehouses or making face masks, to an usher who became a model during lockdown.
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