In observance of Hiroshima Day, which falls on August 6, theatre troupe Swapnadal will stage a special show of its anti-war production, Tringsha Shatabdi at the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Thursday.
The play is an adaptation of Indian playwright Badal Sircar's work with the same title. Directed by Zahid Repon, Tringsha Shatabdi is a protest against war and speaks for promoting of peace all over the world.
The play opens with a narrator who raises questions about the war and seeks speedy trial of the war crimes of 1971. He interrogates some historical characters such as Einstein (who invented the theory of atom bomb), Major Fereby (the pilot of the aircraft that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima), and Major Claude Itharby (who carried the nuclear bomb to Nagasaki and later became insane on his realisation of the crime).
In addition, he raises questions about contemporary brutal war waged by the American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. And through a replicated military exercise, he has depicted the nuclear activities by the global superpowers.
In a transformation, the narrator of the play becomes a character, namely Suman, who wants the trial of war criminals acted against the country's Liberation War during 1971.
