Anchor, mime artiste Mousumi Mou awarded in 35th Int’l University Theatre Festival in Morocco

Entertainment Report :
Popular anchor of present generation, actress and mime artiste Mousumi Mou won the Best Female Performer award at the 35th International University Theatre Festival 2023 Casablanca in Morocco.
She is the member of Dhaka University Mime Action (DUMA),
a mime group primarily initiated by renowned mime artiste Mir Lokman.
The festival was held from July 24
to 29 at Casablanca in Morocco.
Participants from countries including Bangladesh, France, Germany, Italy, Morocco, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia
performed at the event.
Awards were given in 7 categories including-Best Choreography (Italy), Best Scenography (Italy), Best Actor male (Morocco), Best Actress (Bangladesh), Best Director (Germany), Best Script Writer (Morocco), and The Special Prize of Jury (Morocco).
While sharing her feelings delighted Mousumi Mou told this correspondent, “Winning the award among multiple female artistes seemed like a dream to me. I was happy to learn that at least
I am nominated but when I actually won the award, I couldn’t believe it.”
Mou also informed us that each team had more female participants, so
the competition was tough.
Last Thursday, the team performed four sketches of 40 minutes each, which were titled as – ‘Oswikriti’, ‘Chair:
The Sign of Power’, ‘Bhalobasha’ and ‘Otohpor, Subodh Palabe Na Aar’.
The production was staged in collaboration with the Institute of Mime and Movement, an academic platform for mime action and puppetry. Written and directed by Mir Lokman and Shahriar Shaon, it stars Mousumi Mou, Sohan, Shahriar Shaon and Mir Lokman.