Marking ‘Hiroshima Day 2018’, audience-admired theatre troupe Swapnadal is staging a special show of its anti-war production ‘Tringsha Shatabdee’ today at the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA) in Segun Bagicha of the capital.

Adapted and directed by Zahid Repon, the play is being staged by Swapnadal, in association with BSA and Japan Embassy.

The ‘Hiroshima Day 2018’ observation programme includes Hiroshima-Nagasaki tragedy based poster and photography exhibition and video installation. The event also includes distributing paper cranes to the audience in remembrance of a bomb-victim Japanese child Sadako Sasaki, a brief anti-war discussion and 95th performance of Swapnadal’s Hiroshima-Nagasaki tragedy based anti-war laboratory theatre production ‘Tringsha Shatabdee’.

Chaired by poet Rabindra Gope, vice chancellor (VC) of Jagannath University Dr Mizanur Rahman will be present as the chief guest at the programme, while theatre personality Enamul Haque will be present as special guest and founder and chief secretary of Swapnadal Zahid Repon will deliver the welcome speech at the programme.

Swapnadal’s ‘Tringsha Shatabdee’ is an anti-war Laboratory Theatre production mainly based on the atom-bomb tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War. But the terrible wars of the world history including Bosnia, Afghanistan-Iraq war, recent brutal attack in Gaza-Syria-kwait-Tunisia-Yamen-Myanmar etc. and the liberation war of Bangladesh are also the important issues of the production. Swapnadal premiered this production in 2002. Since then Swapnadal has been trying to establish anti-war consciousnesses by performing this production and also observing ‘Hiroshima Day’ every year.

Where: BSA, Segun Bagicha

When: 5pm, today