On 29 March "State of Denial" play authored by Rahul Varma was presented to the Canadian spectator, Armenpress reports citing "Montréal mirror" 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 centers 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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