DRAMA
Somalatha
Subasinghe : Memorial Theatre Festival
The
Play House Kotte Theatre Festival for Young Audience will mark its 20th
anniversary with the Somalatha Subasinghe Memorial Theatre Festival with
a line up of all-time favourites dubbed a 'special treat' for children,
parents and grandparents. The Festival will be held at the Lionel Wendt
at 3.3.0 p.m. and 6.45 p.m. on August 27 and 28.
Along with two long time favourite children's plays - Thoppi Welenda
and Punchi Apata Dan Therai, this year's festival will feature the
wonderfully imaginative Gamarala Diviya Loketa (Gamarala Going to
Heaven) and Ratmalee (Red Riding Hood).
All plays in the Festival are semi musicals created in line with the
Sri Lankan folk theatre tradition with full of fun and frolic on the
stage for the young ones and parents alike.
In
addition to the beauty and power of the fairy and folk tales that
literally come alive, the plays are also very educative and help
children to be humane and compassionate.
All the plays in the Festival present to the young and impressionable
mind, important values and lessons in life.
Subtly mixed with the action and humour on stage are invaluable
lessons of love, responsibility, friendship, courage, trust and world
awareness.
The Festival will feature Punchi Apata Den Therei (We Know It Now)
and Thoppi Velenda (The Hat Seller) on August 27 and Gamarala Diviya
Loketa (Gamarala Diviya Loketa) and Ratmalee (Red Riding Hood) on August
28. All the plays are written and directed by the late theatre legend,
Somalatha Subasinghe.
The cast consists of Thilakshini Ratnayake, Dilum Buddhika, Wickrama
Seneviratne, Geetha Alahakoon, Sevior Kanishka, Yashoda Rasanduni, Rohan
Wijethunga, Chamara Gamethige, Dilip Kumara Koralage, Rumali Chamathka,
Mihiri Priyangani, Renuka Liyanage, Poojana Dandeniya, Kumudu
Wickramathanthri, Vimukthi Kiriella, Sameera Lakmal and Buddhika
Edirisinghe. Music Composition and direction is by M.R. Chulasinghe. |