ஒரு தசாப்த காலத்திற்கு முன்னர் இலங்கையின் பொருளாதார நெருக்கடி மற்றும் அதன் அவலத்தைப் பற்றி பேசிய 'கருப்பை தருக்கணிப்பு' நாடகம் / 'Portrayal of the Existing Sri Lanka's Economic Crisis and its Tragedy in a Decade Old Tamil play 'Karuppai Tharukkanippu'

Abstract

Sri Lanka is facing a massive economic crisis (2022), facing many crises like lack of money, food shortage, poverty, unemployment etc. Many are fleeing the country to escape the crisis and starvation and malnutrition are expected. The drawback is that the present literary works do not speak about this situation. In general, Tamil plays have mostly dealt with social problems, life inequalities, political issues, and the uplifting of the oppressed. In this background, the research aims to find a peculiar Tamil play that talk about economic policy and economic activities and to encourage such plays for research with a deep social perspective in the future to avoid such a massive crisis. Ten years ago, the play ‘Karuppai Tharukkanippu’ was produced by Active Theater Movement in Northern Sri Lanka and performed in a public place during the military crisis in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. It talks about the decline in productivity and the attraction of people to import consumption, the destruction of the earth's fertility and the Sri Lankan people being made to be unproductive and only aware of consumption, which will lead to death and misery in the future. It is an extraordinary drama that anticipates the economic crisis in Sri Lanka. Here, the research has been carried out from an auto-ethnographic point of view based on the theory of community theatre, where the researcher himself was also a participant.

Keywords

• sri lanka's economic crisis
• tragedy
• tamil play
• karuppai tharukkanippu.