A POLITICAL FICTION FOR THE THEATRE

SUBJECT-MATTER

The drama describes a tragic incident that took place during the black July that was resulted from the LTTE operations in Jaffna. Thirteen soldiers were killed by the LTTE in Jaffna in the month of July in 1983. As a result the provoked thugs in Colombo started a riot in the city and launched a great massacre of the Tamil civilians.

MAIN THEME

Naturalization – People of various races and different cultures should be mixed together with friendship and cooperation.

SUB THEMES

∙ Racism is baseless.

∙ Friendship surpasses divisions.

∙ For a problem to be solved it should be discussed directly.

LANGUAGE - simple but conversational language

INTRODUCTION

Rasanayagam is a Tamil person from Jaffna. Philip Fernando is a Sinhalese person living in Colombo. Both are close friends as from their university life. Philip is married to a Tamil lady called Sita. Philip and Sita belong to the Colombo middle class and Rasanayagam’s origin is in Jaffna. They experienced several anti-Tamil riots in Sri Lanka. During all these periods Philip supplied shelter to Rasanayagam.