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Dhaka Theatre's play 'Nimajjon' will represent Bangladesh in the 20th Cairo International Theatre Festival in Egypt. The festival will start on October 10. A total of 20 plays from around the world will be staged at the festival, which will continue till October 20. The play 'Nimajjon' will be staged twice in the festival.

A 21-member Bangladesh theatre group led by Nasir Uddin Yousuff left Dhaka yesterday to join the festival.

This was disclosed at a press conference jointly organised by Dhaka Theatre and Bang-ladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA) at the Conference Room of the Experimental Theatre Hall of the BSA on Wednesday. Bhuiyan Shafiqul Islam, Director General of BSA, Ramendu Majumdar, President of ITI, Nasir Uddin Yousuff, Director of Dhaka Theatre, Shimul Yousuff, theatre personality, among others, were present at the conference. The play 'Nimajjon' revolves around a stranger, who is a globe-totter. At the end of his journey, he arrives in a city built at the confluence of three rivers. He comes here to see his ailing friend, a professor of political science, whose political ideology has already invited a threat to his life. Basically the play does not follow any conventional structure - neither does it develop any particular storyline. Through narratives, the play presents a chronological look at genocides around the globe.

According to the play, the history of civilisation and genocides are interlaced - every civilisation has had a history of genocide. And the repetition of these brutal incidents has brought down humans from the superior position. It is an irony. The play also stresses on the unless the structure of a state is not designed for the welfare of humanity, genocides will never end.