Winner of 8 awards at the 1976 State Drama Festival including Best Original Play of the Year and Best Actor awards, ‘Eka Adhipathi’, celebrates 33 years of fame and acclamation when it goes on the boards at the Elphinstone Theatre at 3.00 and 7.00 p.m. on December 9.
The political satire made based on the people’s rebellion against discrimination and dereliction by a corrupt fascist regime, the play had nearly 1450 performances for packed audiences around the country from 1976 to 1999.
The original music score designed by maestro Premasiri Khemadasa is presently handled by Deshaka Sampath and the stellar cast includes Bandaranayake himself in the lead role together with Rajiv Ponweera, Swethekei Munasinghe, Dayadeva Edirisinghe, Lal Peiris, Leonard Cooray, Upul Nishantha, Sampath Tennakoon, Chamila Peiris, Gamini Wijesinghe, Chulla Jayawardhana, Lalith Rajapakse, Wathsala Ranasinghe, Jagath Muthukumarana, Saman Pushpa Liyanage, Himasal Liyanage, Sudesh Wickramarathne, Sarath P. Alawwa, Thushari Chamila Gunarathe, Oshadhi Gunasekera, Rohan de Silva, Asiri Priyanga, Arunodh Wijesinghe, Niluka Dilrukshi Rajamanthri, Manoj Peiris, Dennis Miller and Amil Deepal Galanga. |
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