බක්මහ අකුණු / Bakmaha Akunu by Dayananda Gunawardena

Sat 29th March | General Audience | Sinhala | 19:00 – 20:30 | 90 mins | The New Theatre

‘Bak Maha Akunu’ is an adaptation of Pierre Beaumarchais’s stage comedy ‘The Marriage of Figaro’.  The original is a satirical comedy on a lecherous aristocrat. Dayananda Gunawardena turns the aristocrat into a “kastane-carrying Mudaliyar”, the head of a feudal household. The Mudaliyar has designs on the virtue of Pabulina, the young and pretty maidservant of the Walauwe. The Mudaliyar makes advances unashamedly. Jason, Pabulina’s fiance and fellow-servant, threatens to unmask the Mudaliyar when Pabulina confesses to him that the Mudaliyar is running after her. Living with them is Premadasa, a young boy-servant who is in love with love. He has a crush on the lady of the House, Lamathani. The web of intrigue and counter-intrigue becomes thicker as the play goes on. Lamathani and Paulina set their feminine skill to devising a plan which will foil the Mudaliyar.