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New ‘Guru Tharuwa’ at Elphinstone

‘Guru Tharuwa’, popular stsge drama, will be staged again at the Elphinstone theatre on August 22 at 3.30 and 6.45 pm.

After completing ten years of run around the country, this will be like relaunching the drama.

‘Guru Tharuwa’ is written and produced by Jayalath Manorathna and originally staged in 1996.

The theme of ‘Guru Tharuwa’ is the tragedy of harmful effects caused to Sri Lankan society due to removing Aesthetic Literature as a subject and the literature teacher from the class room.

In this new version drama, which added a novel theme to the story line, will be open for critics. Rathnalalani with Manorathna, Suminda Sirisena, Lal Kularathne, Jagath Benaragama, Somapala Pathirage, Sampath Thennakoon, Dayadewa Edirisinghe, Sarath Chandrasiri, Priyantha Senevirathne, Sashika and number of other artistes star in this play.

Music creation is by Ranjith Balasuriya. Gesture writing by Jagath Padmasiri, while Suwineetha Perera is in charge of stage costume creations. The stage lighting by Lionel Bentarage and Jude Srimal functions as the Chief Organizer.
‘Guru Tharuwa’, is considered as a semi documentary play.

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