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Janakaraliya Drama Festival

From 23rdJune to 13th July in the Janakaraliya Mobile Theatre

Installed on the New Urban Project Grounds

Homagama

CharandasAdapted & Directed by

Parakrama Niriella

(Awarded Best Drama at the State Drama Festival 2006

Winner of 09 awards

Represented International Drama Festival New Delhi 2008)

23rd Thursday 9.30am /6.30pm

Sekkuwa(Oil Press)

Written & Directed by

Parakrama Niriella

(Most Outstanding Drama in State Drama Festivals 1976 & 2010

Winning 11 Awards for Sinhala and Tamil productions)

24th

Friday 9.30am /6.30pm

Andara mal

(Andara Flowers)Directed by Parakrama Niriella

('Andara mal' is one of the most performed popular Janakaraliya dramas)

Short Plays

Samanthara

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(Parallel)Directed by

Rathna Pushpa Kumari

Thavama

Merila ne

(Not Yet Dead)By the drama group of Jaffna State Security Headquarters

25th Saturday 6.30pm

Short Plays

Thaniyek Visishtai(A Loner is Great)

Written & Directed By

Aloka Sampath

Kochchiya Enkan(Awaiting the Train)

Written & Directed by

Lasantha Francis

Dinosaur Premaya(Dinosaur Love)

Written & Directed By

Nuwan Dharshana

(Three of the Best Short Plays Winning number of awards

at State Drama Festivals and Youth Drama Festivals 2003 through 2010 )

26th Sunday 2.30pm/6.30pm

Metikaraththaya('The Little Clay Cart' of Shudraka)

Directed By

Parakrama Niriella

(Adjudicated the best non original drama in

the State Drama Festival, 2010 winning 06 awards)

27th Monday 9.30am/ 6.30pm

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Soru Evilla(Thieves are Here)

And

Devlova Gamana(Journey to Heaven)

Childrens plays created by Janakaraliya Drama Group

('Soru Evilla' AwardedBest Childrens Drama

at State Childrens Drama Festival 2001

-Written by Sumith Samarasinghe)

28th

Tuesday 9.30am/6.30pm

Seethambarapata(Heavenly Clothes)

and

Andara Mal(Andara Flowers)

Directed by

Parakrama Niriella

(Two of the most performed popular Janakaraliya plays

Heavenly Clothes written by Mangala Senanayake)29th Wednesday 9.30am/6.30pm

Sekkuwa(Oil Press)

Written & Directed by

Parakrama Niriella

(Most Outstanding Drama in State Drama Festivals 1976 & 2010

Winning 11 Awards for Sinhala and Tamil productions)

30th

Thursday 9.30am/6.30pm

CharandasAdapted & Direct red by

Parakrama NiriellaJuly 1

stFriday 9.30am -6.30pm

Hunuwataye Kathawa(Caucasian Chalk Circle

of Bertolt Brecht)

Adapted & Directed by

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Punchi Apata Den Therai(Little Us Know that Now)

Directed By

Somalatha Subasinghe

(These childrens plays have made representation at International Childrens Drama Festivals

in France, Korea, Australia and India. Two very popular and precedential Children's drams performing

for over 20 years by the Children's & youth Theatre Foundation.)

6th Wednesday 9.30am6.30pm

Colombo ColomboDirected By Indika Fernando

(Adjudicated Best Drama at the State Drama Festival 2010 Winning 10 awards

Represented New Delhi Drama Festival on Asian Women2009

and International Drama FestivalKathmandu, Nepal2010)

7th Thursday 9.30 -6.30pm

Bernadage Sipiri Ge(House Bernada Alba)

Directed By

Priyantha Sirikumara(Adaptation of French playwright Fredrico Gartia Loca's play)

9th Saturday 6.30pm

Sekkuwa(Oil Press)

Written & Directed by

Parakrama Niriella

10th Sunday 6.30pm

Metikaraththaya('The Little Clay Cart' of Shudraka)

Directed By

Parakrama Niriella

11th Monday 9.30am/6.30pm

Soru Evilla(Thieves are Here)

and

Devlova Gamana(Journey to Heaven)

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Childrens plays created by Janakaraliya Drama Group

12th

Tuesday 9.30am/6.30pm

CharandasAdapted & Direct red by

Parakrama Niriella

13th

Wednesday 9.30am/6.30pm

TicketsSchool Children Rs. 50/- Public Performances Rs. 100/-

Direction

Parakrama Niriella, Amitta Weerasinghe, Dilip Rohana

And

Janakaraliya Drama Group