By Somalatha Subasinghe Play House
Craig Ingham, Asabi Goodman, Wayne Bassett, Green Pearl Grantham, Graceyn Arkinstall, William Wensley, Alex Contis, Ged Maybury, Vicky Loughrey. Therese Westbrook, Jack McGuigan, Jack Duzgun Ozturk and Tony Jessica Berry.Damien Beebe handles cinematography, and production design is by Tim Hodgman. Editing and sound design is by Roberto Merlini and the music is composed by Jason Fernandez. The film was entirely filmed in Australia.
Imported by Ceylon Theatres Ltd and distributed by CEL, the film will be screened at MC Colombo, Empire Arcade, CCC, PVR cinemas and
Savoy.
Lanka Children’s and Youth Theatre Foundation (LCYTF) or popularly known as Somalatha Subasinghe Play House commences its latest programme, “Drama beyond the classroom” on March 5. The programme is specially designed for grade seven to G.C.E. O/L eleven children who offer drama and theatre as a subject at school. The prime objective of the programme is to make drama and theatre learning an enjoyable experience for the participating children. All aspects of drama and theatre are presented to children in an easy-to-understand way so that their artistic taste, cheerfulness and playful sense of the child is enhanced. The programme is based on meticulously crafted activities and they give the child the opportunity to experience the most important learning outcomes of drama and theatre such as sense of caring, world awareness, experience in human relationships and sociocultural values, a sense of basic art forms and more importantly confidence
and dignity.
This programme is conducted on Thursdays from 3.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. at Battramulla Lion’s Club Activity Centre situated in Jayanthipura main road, Battaramulla. Dr. Chandana Aluthge, Mayura Perera and Nilanka Dahanayake who are well experienced children’s theatre practitioners in Sri Lanka are the chief resource persons of the programme.