Despite the fact that the playwright thinks a commode “is not so novel an idea” as art, it certainly did put things in perspective for those who were at the E.O.E Pereira Theatre last Sunday afternoon. ‘The Commode’ brought political and cultural theory literally under the light. Dhanuka Bandara’s play was a brave attempt at voicing out opinion; radical opinion too, at that. It raised startling questions in startling ways and dared to bring on stage, into public, the youthful resistance of what Dhanuka himself calls “political virginity.”