"The first duty of a story teller is to tell a story..."

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 20^th, 21^st and 22^nd 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