Kulanthai M. Shaumuhalingam the prominent figure of the Thamil Theatre is Seventy Five Years now.Third Eye Local Knowledge and Skill Activists group is proud to honor a Theatre Personality and celebrate his high qualities as a person and as an artist.
The magnanimous caliber of Shunner is great and unspoken message from a living figure.
He has created a unique idiom of the modern Thamil theatre and popularized it with the participation of theatre artists and activists who are mostly his disciples.
The modern Thamil Theatre of Sri Lanka is not a space for a few “Intellectuals and Artists”.
It’s a space for the people or the “popular mass”.
The power of Shunner is as mentioned by Prof. K. Sivathamby is “his art that transformed the alternative as a popular one and make it as a people’s theater” in order to represent their voices or raise their voices against authoritarianism.
Third Eye Local Knowledge and Skill Activists Group is proud to launch a book on Kulanthai M. Shumahalingham titled “Educational Theatre of Shunner” (Thamil) in order to celebrate his 75th birthday.
It’s a collection of articles and an interview in Thamil and in English by Kulanthai M. Shunmahalingham, S.Jeyasankar and Prof. James Thompson.
S.Jeyasankar
