Sarachchandra entered the drama around 1940 as a playwright who followed the Western natural drama tradition. For the next ten years or so, he was involved in Western natural drama adapted into Sinhala. During that time, he made the stage plays "Mudalalige Peraliya" (1943), "Kapuwa Kapoti" (1945), "Hangi Hora" (1949), "Valaha", "Magul Prasthava" and "Manager" (1950) which were adaptive natural dramas produced by him. In 1951, he produced the play "Bahina Kalawa" which was his first naturalistic creation. Then he made three independent, natural short plays: "Vala Ihagena Kema", "Tharuna Lekakaya" and "Sathwa Karunawa". In 1955, he made his longest natural drama "Wadinna Giya Devale", which is a semi-natural drama with two songs based on a golden folk tale.