Lanka Children’s and Youth Theatre Foundation (LCYTF), popularly known as Somalatha Subasinghe Play House commences its latest program, Drama beyond the classroom on March 5 2020.
The program is especially designed for Grade seven to G.C.E. O/L students who offer drama and theatre as a subject in school. The prime objective of the program is to make drama and theatre learning an enjoyable experience for the participating children. All aspects of drama and theatre are presented to the child in an easy-to-understand manner so that the artistic taste, cheerfulness and playful sense of the child is enhanced. The program 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 socio-cultural values, a sense of basic art forms and more importantly confidence and dignity. School going students who have the knack to be creative and adventurous too can join the program. For such students the activities could be considered supplementary to their formal education in school.
The program is conducted at the Battaramulla Lion’s Club Activity Centre, Jayanthipura main road, Battaramulla, on Thursdays from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Dr. Chandana Aluthge, Mayura Perera and Nilanka Dahanayake who are well experienced children’s theatre practitioners are the chief resource persons of the program. The duration of the program is 12 weeks and is offered twice a year in March and June. For details please call T: 075 9858002, 011 2863306, or visit www.playhousekotte.org, or FB/playhousekotte.org or e mail to [email protected]