Let's make a play
Anuradha KODAGODA
Lanka Children's and Youth Theatre Foundation (LCYTF) or popularly
known as Play House-Kotte commences its latest programme for children
Let's Make Play (A Drama Workshop through which children create a play
at the end of the programme) during school vacation in August 2011.
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Drama, by its very nature, requires that the child be put into
circumstances, physically, mentally and emotionally that are outside
their understanding of how things should be. This helps them to grow as
a person. By encouraging drama for children, the children obtain some
enormous personal benefits that will stay with them long into adulthood.
So, Let's Make a Play programme would certainly be a different and
fulfilling way for your child to spend his or her school vacation in
August.
Lanka Children's and Youth Theatre Foundation was founded by
Somalatha Subasinghe, the veteran playwright, actress and theatre
director, in 1981 to promote theatre productions and performances
specifically for children and youth, training of actors, and research on
theatre studies. This organisation presently is the top most institution
for children's and youth theatre productions in Sri Lanka. Since 1981
the organisation has produced a repertoire of mainly musical theatre for
children and youth and mainstream art theatre productions and performed
them in the island as well as abroad. This institution was incorporated
in the parliament in January 2007 under the Act No 3 of 2007.
Children from ages seven to 15 can take part in the programme. The
programme gives the child the opportunity to learn and enjoy the basic
elements in drama and theatre such as acting, script writing, directing,
making music, making costumes, making stage sets and properties, etc
using available resources. The prime objective of the programme is to
develop child's mental and physical aspects and to enhance artistic
taste, cheerfulness and playful sense of the child through drama and
theatre.
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