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Indian Ink

  • Tom Stoppard
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, 1930s, 1980s
  • 14M, 4F
  • ISBN: 9780573017964

"A celebration of the power of art and an elegy for its secrets."

London Sunday Times

"An evening of wry, romantic melancholia."

Evening Standard

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy

  • Time Period: 1930s, 1980s

  • Accolades:
  • Nominee! 2015 2 Lucille Lortel Awards including Best Revival of a Play
Flora Crewe, an unconventional, young English poet living in India in 1930, is having her portrait painted by local artist Nairad Das and writing letters home to her sister Nell. Intermittent scenes, which are set in England in 1980, focus on Nell as she sorts through the cherished letters to aid Flora's would be biographer, Eldon Pike.
 
Within this context, Indian Ink weaves a captivating, whimsical love story that underscores aspects of relationships between cultures and between the sexes that are indelible.
REVIEWS:

"A celebration of the power of art and an elegy for its secrets."

London Sunday Times

"Moving and intelligent."

Guardian

"Charming."

Financial Times

"An evening of wry, romantic melancholia."

Evening Standard

"A moving and entertaining evening; funny, sad, and touchingly gentle."

Sunday Mail

"This sad, funny play is a wonderfully affectionate remembrance of things past."

Daily Telegraph

Premiere Production: Indian Ink was first produced by Michael Codron at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, and subsequently at the Aldwych Theatre, London, on 27th February, 1995.

Characters

  • Casting: 14M, 4F

  • FLORA CREWE
    COOMARASWAMI
    NAZRUL
    ELEANOR SWAN
    ELDON PIKE
    ANISH DAS
    NIRAD DAS
    DAVID DURANCE
    DILIP
    RESIDENT
    ENGLISHWOMAN
    ENGLISHMAN
    RAJAH / POLITICIAN
    NELL
    ERIC

    In addition:
    INDIAN QUESTIONER(S)
    CLUB SERVANT(S)
    RAJAH'S SERVANT(S)

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    Flora Crewe, an unconventional, young English poet living in India in 1930, is having her portrait painted by local artist Nairad Das and writing letters home to her sister Nell. 

    Intermittent scenes, which are set in England in 1980, focus on Nell as she sorts through the cherished letters to aid Flora's would be biographer, Eldon Pike.
     
    Within this context, Indian Ink weaves a captivating, whimsical love story that underscores aspects of relationships between cultures and between the sexes that are indelible.

    		$24.95

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