Gladiator Premaya at Lumbini
Lanka Children's and Youth Theatre Foundation (LCYTF) will be
presenting Gladiator Premaya ('Gladiator Love') at Punchi Theatre on
August 7 at 6:45pm.
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Scene from Gladiator Premaya |
The LCYTF or better known as Play House, Kotte was established as a
voluntary organization in 1981 by Somalatha Subasinghe, the veteran
playwright and theatre director, with a view to promote children's and
youth theatre and mainstream theatre.
Over the years LCYTF has produced a repertoire of internationally
acclaimed musical productions for children and youth. Today LCYTF is the
leading producer of theatre for children and youth, and one of the major
training and skill development centres for actors and other creative
professionals. With its theatre productions over the years, LCYTF has
also been able to set new standards for the Sri Lankan theatre.
Gladiator Premaya is created by the youth theatre artistes who have
successfully completed the Diploma Program in Drama and Theatre
conducted by Kaushalya Fernando in 2009. The Diploma entails all round
training such as acting, scriptwriting and analysis, directing, movement
and vocal training. Over 25 years, the LCYTF has been training numerous
talented youth who are at present engaged in the work of both theatre
and film industry at professional level in Sri Lanka.
The storyline and the script of the play have been developed by the
young theatre artistes, who have completed the training in Drama and
Theatre arts at LCYTF. Development of the script was done under the
supervision of Namal Jayasinghe. Namal was the chief resource person of
the scriptwriting and analysis section of the Diploma program. Gladiator
Premaya is based on certain Sri Lankan contemporary social issues. They
are dramatized on stage to bring forth the youth point of view of the
issues. The play is co-directed by Prasanna Mahagamage and Namal
Jayasinghe.
Prasanna works with Kaushalya on acting, directing and movements
sections of the diploma program. Both Namal and Prasanna joined Play
House, Kotte in 1997 and obtained their training in theatre arts at
LCYTF. PR |
