The story begins at the Bangalore City railway station. We meet Kutisa at a street stall selling chai …
Jacob Rajan and Justin Lewis’s Guru of Chai is based, very loosely, on the Indian fairytale, Punchkin.
When Jacob Rajan wanted to take his acclaimed play, Krishnan’s Dairy, to South Island audiences in the late 1990s, one theatre owner dismissed him outright.
It is now nearly 20 years since Jacob Rajan’s Krishnan’s Dairy first saw the light of day.
His seventh production is about to open, but Jacob Rajan wasn’t even supposed to have a drama career.
#SeriousLaughter is their Twitter moniker and sure enough Indian Ink’s latest joyful production with soulful intent has themes of mythology …
One good reason to appreciate Indian Ink is that they are an established theatre company that take genuine risks in their work while cohesively maintaining a focus towards the longevity of their art.
Only a complete fool would fail to realise the world is rapidly becoming a pretty horrible place.
THE Opera House stage hasn’t been dressed in such wonderful colours in a long time. Multi-hued sari material has been made into a backdrop of curtains, a patchwork of Indian vibrancy.
The magic of Indian Ink returns after a period of international touring with a new work that has the shrewdness of fable combined with the sweetness of a pop song.
The most recent offering from Indian Ink is a stripped-back exploration of story-telling that revels in the enchantments of an art form that is as ancient as humanity and as current as a Facebook profile.
If you are a cup half-full kind of person, the Guru of Chai is just for you.
