All the seeds of creativity were
implanted in him from an early age and it was writing that became his first
love...
The Pillowman is about a writer in a
totalitarian state named Katurian K Katurian who is arrested with his 400 odd
short stories confistcated. He can’t for the life of him see the connection
between the arrest and his stories.
Katurian is played by Shyju Varkey.
Shyju currently works at Radio One in Bangalore. He got back into active
theatre in 2006, after a decade-long hiatus, with the Cause Foundation's
'Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'. Since then, he has been a part
of 'All Shook Up', 'Breaking up is hard to do', 'Grease', and more recently,
the rip roaring 'Spamalot'. He has also been a part of Poile Sengupta's
'Samara's Song' as well as Tortilla's 'Together in the
City'.
He maintains that more than being on stage, it is the stimulating environment of everything that goes behind the scenes that excites him, keeping his mind off from a sometimes-stressful media job.
This is his first play with the Renegade Arts and Theatre Society.
The Play The Pillowman will be held at Alliance Française on the 20th,
21st and 22nd of April.
Tickets are available at all
Barista outlets in Bangalore and Cafe De Liberte at the venue. Also available
online at www.buzzintown.com,
www.indianstage.in
and www.zomato.com
