Atul Kumar Actor, Director [English Theatre ] Which is the last best play you saw and why? I loved RAM SAJEEVAN KI PREMKATHA for its simplicity, theatricality, truthfulness, rigour and craft. Your favourite adda to see a play... Prithvi is my favorite adda to see any play. Your favourite playwright... Jean Genet/ Shakespeare The most hilarious play you have ever seen... Michael Frayn's NOISES OFF A play you would like to see filmed. Why? None. For me the two mediums just do not meet. Yet there are many plays turned into successful films that I like both as plays as well as films. A novel/short story you would like to see on stage? Why? 'Lady with Lapdog' by Chekhov. I directed my version of it and completely failed; yet I love the story, everyone who reads it around me loves it and I completely made a mess of it on stage. Would love to see someone fly with it. A play, which is over-hyped... All of Tennessee William's plays, according to me An important play (but ignored) SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR by Luigi Pirandello A passage from an important play that you can recite... 'O that this too too sullied flesh would melt...' - HAMLET A play that changed your perception about theatre... HAMLET How do you regard the Mumbai theatre scene? The Mumbai theatre scene is growing by the day. When I came to Mumbai 15 years back it was already kicking, then it became better, then even more with lots of young people joining in to do and to see and now even more so with so many theatre companies doing theatre in Hindi, English, Marathi, Gujarati and other languages...It's time to be happy! We have survived! Can you think of a foreign production that you found remarkable? Why? THE DISAPPEARING NUMBER by the UK based theatre company Complicite for its intelligent writing, emotional content, theatricality and craft, as well as visual and spatial feat. Your favourite director/actor/music or set designer... Director- Simon McBurney of Complicite Actor- Yoshi Oida Set designer- Peter Pabst (for Pina Bausch's productions) Have you read any interesting books/articles concerning the theatre? Why did you find them interesting? The last interesting book I read on theatre was Yoshi Oida's 'An Actor's Tricks'. He is a master teacher along with being an ace actor. His insight into his own roots in Japan mixed with influences from the West, where he has spent most of his life as an actor, have much to teach each one of us who search the world of an actor and his craft. He talks simply and yet profoundly. If you have ever been a part of a theatre production/s, can you recall an event that was insightful, significant or simply humorous? 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