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I have never seen one smoked outside of a theater.
That was a requisite.
Personally, I was a smoker for …
I am a smoker; Ill probably start again.
Im 39 now and I have been smoking since I was 15.
It feels like I havent totally betrayed my people I tried to do the smokers justice.
I havent had a cigarette in almost a year now.
There were in the script pretty specific moments where it says, Faith lights a cigarette.
When does the cig need to go out because you need your hand for this other thing?
We probably got up to about eight cigarettes a show.
Thats a journey that were asking the audience to go on: Can you be curious about the unknown?
Then we bought cartons of the herbal cigarettes, and Juliana put them into these Marlboro cigarette boxes.
Andthen, because the cigarettes are opened onstage, each performance she resealed every cigarette pack.
There are three packs in a pile that the stage-management team meticulously designs to look the same every night.
Plus some more in the ashtray.At the start of the play, probably like seven or eight.
But it is, definitely, real smoke.
I guess you’ve got the option to add three cigarettes for myself.
Howd that work out for you?I think it did what it was supposed to do.
I still havent smoked a real one.
Montagwill be at the Soho Rep through November 20.
This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.
