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Suchitra Pillai
Actress
[English Theatre ]
Suchitra PillaiWhich is the last best play you saw and why?

TWO TO TANGO THREE TO JIVE: great characters, fab actors.

Your favourite adda to see a play

Prithvi theatre

Your favourite playwright

Mahesh Dattani

Your favourite play-character

Ratna from DANCE LIKE A MAN

A play you would like to see filmed. Why?

AUGUST OSAGE COUNTY. It's been recently filmed. I look forward to it. The play has incredible characters in a dysfunctional family with so much going on in each one's life.

A novel/short story you would like to see on stage? Why?

'My Feudal Lord': it's a hard hitting story which one will definitely take back with them once the play is over.

The most hilarious play you have seen

I am biased coz I'm in it! DANCE LIKE A MAN, after 16 years we still laugh at the lines.

An important play (but ignored)

BRIEF CANDLE by Mahesh Dattani.

A play character you would like to ''dialogue'' with

Gandhi in SAMMY

A passage from an important play that you can recite

''Romeo oh Romeo wherefore art thou...this is also Ratna s last outburst in DANCE LIKE A MAN.

A classical play that you should have read

OTHELLO

A play that changed your perception about the theatre

DANCE LIKE A MAN

How do you regard the Mumbai theatre scene?

It's slowly growing. It's getting more appreciative of all kinds of theatre.

If you have ever been a part of a theatre production/s, can you recall an event that was insightful, significant or simply humorous?

When I walked into a concrete wing during a show of THE WEDDING ALBUM, and continued the show with my nose bleeding and swelling up!

Can you think of a foreign production that you found remarkable? Why?

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA: everything was perfect. I was transported into their world.

A significant Indian production that you may have witnessed

HISTORY OF INDIA VIRITTEN by Vir Das

Life in the theatre without the humble batata-wada or the cutting chai... or can you recall the best gastronomic experience you've had in the precincts of the theatre to date?

While preparing for my new play THE SCENT OF A MAN...from batata wadas to 5 star delicacies... we were fed it all!

 
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