Spanish-language theater research, translation, and adaptation is dramaturgy professor Harley Erdman’s thing, and as he began to plan for his spring 2016 sabbatical, traveling to Latin America to work seemed all but inevitable. However, he says, “I also had this idea planted that I should do something totally new.” That desire, plus a fortuitous connection with a former graduate student, led Erdman to Sri Lanka for a semester as a Fulbright US Scholar, teaching theater, exploring the country, and making a good start on a new theater adaptation of a Sri Lankan author’s works about the country’s