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Showcasing juvenile talent

Sri Lankan children's drama art, unarguably, was well established under educational and psychological foundation. This was through the National Children's Drama Festival which was started in 1996 for the first time in Sri Lanka.


The award recipients

National Children's Drama Festival is one of the most significant and eye-catching drama festivals, which is experienced by a large number of children and adults throughout the country. This time it was more impressive that 23 Sinhala dramas, 10 Tamil dramas and eight English dramas were staged.

The winning drama of the National Children's Drama Festival was Nuwange Mithuro which was presented by Giriulla Child and Youth Drama School under the supervision of Palitha Lokupothagama. The script of the drama was written by Lokupothagama who teaches drama and theatre at Giriulla Wikramashila National School. His son, Sonduru Lokupothagama, was the producer and the main actor of the drama who performed really well. He won the best actor of the year. Costume designing was done by Palitha while music direction was done by Nayana Laxmi Lansakara.

Nuwange Mithuro won six awards: best production, best script, best actor, best music, best costume designing and best stage management. While Sonduru carried out the best performance, Nadeeshani Ranaweera, Sasindu Athukorala, Nuwan nandika, Sampath Sri Kulathunga, Manoj Pathirana, Dananjaya Darmadasa, Yehan Pathirana Susan Madawa and many other actors and actresses contributed their best to make this drama the best one of the year.

The best actor, Sonduru, is a talented child who studies in grade 8 at Giriulla Wikramashila National School. He has started acting when he was in pre-school under his father Lokupothagama. He is skillful and willing to be an excellent actor while performing well in his studies.

The specialty of this year's National Children's Drama Festival is that Tamil and English dramas were introduced for the first time. It will help improve the standards of Tamil and English dramas in future.

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