CANADIANS – FIRST SPECTATOR OF PLAY TELLING ABOUT ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
ARMENPRESS
MARCH 29, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, MARCH 29, ARMENPRESS: On 29 March “State of Denial” play
authored by Rahul Varma was presented to the Canadian spectator,
Armenpress reports citing “montrealmirror” website.
In writing this play, Varma derived a fictional story from multiple
true stories garnered from years of interviews as a part of the
research for Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by Genocide, War
and Other Human Rights Violations. State of Denial is being presented
as a part of Life Stories Montreal and is directed by Deborah Forde.
The story centres around a Rwandan-born Canadian filmmaker, Odette,
who has been working in Turkey to create a documentary about Armenian
survivors of the genocide that took place almost a hundred years ago
during the rule of the Ottoman empire.
One interesting thing about this play is that while watching it one
cannot help but notice the similarities between stories from the
Armenian genocide, the filmmaker”s stories of Rwanda, and stories
that we have all heard about the most famous of genocides, the
Holocaust. This helps drive home the fact that genocide is a tragedy
that keeps on occurring, which is why the playwright seeks to spread
these stories and prevent history from repeating itself.
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