Hon. Chaminda Pusswedilla, politician extraordinaire makes a public appearance at the Lionel Wendt in June this year. The play which is part 2 of the hit comedy of 2007, Thank you for Voting, tracks down a day in the life of Puss.
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| Angela Seneviratne |
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| Leyon Rajaratne |
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| Pasan Ranaweera |
Starting off with his customary meetings, Hon. Puss’ day quickly takes a turn for the worse when his beloved mother in law played by Angela Seneviratne arrives and starts making unreasonable demands from him. Add to that Hon. Puss’ usual bunch of henchmen, Cyril Nitharamasuffering (Pasan Ranaweera), Bernard Pagaagiving (Dinesh Maheswaran), Banki (Yashoda Suriyapperuma) and Manjula (Buddhima de Mel) all arrive at his office with their usual requests and suggestions.
Topping it all off is the fact that Puss’ old friend from the International TV Station Carrying Nothing Newsworthy, Robert Westernthinking (Hans Billimoria) is recording everything and interviewing our hero from time to time for a special program.
Two feisty Ambassadors (Dedunie de Silva and Marsh Dodanwela) the village bus Mudalali (Leyon Rajaratne) and several other strange characters all converge into Puss’ office. Despite all the mayhem surrounding him, Hon. Puss’ (played by Anuruddha Fernando) manages to weave and duck his way in and out of trouble and finally with his usual flair and luck manages to stay on top.
The Minister of Indigenous music, Kalavibhushee Sunil Bailachakravartees (Kevin Van Sanden) arrives with his usual collection of songs to cheer up Hon. Puss.
Hon. Puss is written and directed by Feroze Kamardeen and produced by Sirraj Abdul Hameed. The play is presented by Stagefright&Panic and goes on the boards at the Lionel Wendt Theatre from June 19 – 28 at 7.30pm. Box Plan and tickets are now available at the theatre.
The main sponsor for the play is Dialog, while the Co-sponsors are South Asian Technologies, Colma, Sony, Hameedias, Halien Production House, Video Image, EFM, ETV, Leo Burnett Solutions and Speitra WT. Official Print media are the Daily Mirror and The Sunday Times.
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