‘Arundathie Mama Manamalai’ on June 2
Upcoming drama director
Sugath Shantha Moragahakumbura’s play ‘Arundathie Mama Manamalai’ is set to begin another series on June 2 (Sunday) at the Lanka Mahila Samithi Auditorium in Malabe. The times for the shows have been set for 3.30 pm and 6.30 pm.
The plot for the drama resolves around a boarding house where the land lady is the decision maker, but like most mothers is unaware of children’s interests and wishes in life. The landlady has a daughter (Arundathie) and the latter begins a close association with a LGBT male (name of this character is Malinga) who resides in the boarding. The landlady’s daughter is not happy with the way Malinga makes love to her. She attempts to find a quick fix to the problem through a young tuition master who is a new entrant to the boarding. Arundathie requests the tuition master to teach Malinga the art of making love. However Malinga remains a flop in his relationship with women. Arundathie later elopes with the tuition master (name of the character is Suranga). Moragahakumbura makes an attempt in the drama to show how passionate LGBT individuals are about relationships and that they too can take loads of responsibilities in society. All these ideologies of the drama director surfaces when Malinga eventually says that even though Arundathie might return with several children from her association with Suranga that he is ready to take her back as his life partner.
This series of his drama is sponsored by Priyan Greshitha on behalf of Kavindi Production. The cast in the drama comprise Roshan Jayasundara, Dilhara Jayasinghe, Kulasiri Mallikarachchi, Rupa Gomes and Nishan Sampath.
Moragahakumbura is a journalist, author and drama producer and has even made a short film titled ‘Christmas Gift’. Some of the other theatrical productions of Moragahakumbura are ‘Vilanguwa’, ‘Dharmistala’ and ‘ Minissu’.