Charandas - an award winning drama at Lionel Wendt

Parakrama Niriella's latest dramatic creation; "Charandas", which won the award for the best drama at the State Drama Festival of 2006, will be staged on 01 April 2007 at the Lionel Wendt theatre, at 3.30 and 7.00 p.m.

"Charandas" is an adaptation of original play; "Charandas Chor" by Indian playwright Habib Thanvir. This satirical drama won 9 awards in the both categories of Sinhala and Tamil at the State Drama Festival including the best Production, best Direction, best Actor and best Supporting Actor. Music is created by H.A. Perera.

The Choreographer and Assistant Director is Ravindra Mapitigama while Dilip Rohana is responsible as the Production Manager. Theatre Group is managed by Nishantha Kularatne and Avanthi Udakumbura is the coordinator. Make-up is by Palitha Abelal.

This play is a production of Jana Karaliya and it is being performed by a specially trained group of talented performing artists representing both ethnic groups, Sinhala and Tamil.

The cast consist of Jayantha Muthuthanthri, Manjula Ranasinghe, Suneth Shanthapriya, Sumudu Mallawarachchi, Palitha Abelal, Chaminda Prasad, Muyandi Kalidas, Sokkalingam Chrishanthan, Ajanthan Shanthikumar, Verni Theresa, Arosha Tharanganie, Sineth Devinda, Thyagaraja Sivanesan, Sam Paul, Praneeth Jeewantha, Dinesh Sri Livera, Rasaiya Lohanandan, Malithi Kumari, Selvaraj Leelawathie, Balachrishnan Radhika and Sodivel Sridevi.