Old Peradeniya University in Memory and Imagination with a play in one act to conclude. "Under The Ola Leaves" about the tragedy between man and beast in Sinhabahu. Ernest Thalayasingam Macintyre is a Sri Lankan playwright of the English language, who has been active in the Sri Lankan English theatre for the last 50 years. Macintyre attended Peradeniya University where he was a Dramsoc member. During the 1960s, Macintyre was hailed as the most prolific and successful of Sri Lankan playwrights in English. He was a member of the performing group 'Stage and Set', which presented established international plays as well as those written by him. In 2005, Macintyre revived E.F.C. Ludowyk's He Comes from Jaffna in a production in Sydney, Australia, updating the script to reflect changes in social values. His version of this play, together with the scripts of Rasanayagam's Last Riot and He Still Comes From Jaffna, was published in the anthology Jaffna and Colombo.