Jotugriho
About This Event
Storyline: On the outskirts of Dhaka, in the quiet industrial suburb of Ashulia’s Nischintapur, stood the Tazreen Fashions Ltd. factory — until that tragic night of November 24, 2012, when fire consumed it. Within moments, flames turned a nine-story building into a blazing tomb. Over a hundred garment workers were burned alive; many others, desperate to escape the inferno, leapt from the upper floors to their deaths. From the ashes of that horror, BotTala brought forth its fourth production, Jatugriha — The Lac House — premiering on March 16, 2013. In Jatugriha, the dead speak. They reach out to the living, pointing unflinching fingers toward the truth: their deaths were not fate, not accident — but murder. The play refuses to let the memory of their terror fade. It stands as a torch against forgetfulness. In the ancient epic, those trapped in the fiery lac house carved a tunnel and fled to freedom. But our garment workers had no escape route. Their bodies burned like bees in a hive,
