But this is just a stylistic veneer on a play which provides insights into problems about people – jealousy, fear of the known and unknown and an unnatural belief in God.
Technically, The Dentist’s Chair is an impressive mix of organic theatrical devices such as using Smith’s clarinet as the phone ring, through to precise video imagery to show what’s going on inside a patient’s head.
Certainly none of this would not work without Lewis’s experienced direction, which holds the diverse theatrical elements together so elegantly.
Pickle, a play about the things that are worth preserving, is the third in a loose trilogy by inventive New Zealanders Indian Ink.
The Pickle King is billed as the third component of a “loose trilogy”
The cast of The Pickle King at the Theatre Royal last night had to take several bows before the appreciative, capacity audience would let them go.
Seven years ago, Jacob Rajan and Justin Lewis formed The Indian Ink Company to produce Krishnan’s Dairy.
Not the least of the pleasures of this offering from the Indian Ink company is that the Wellington wind finally gets its star turn.
Indian Ink come from New Zealand and they provide boundless imagination, a willingness to experiment with form and a touching fairy tale that together hold the interest.
You have to hand it to Jacob Rajan and Justin Lewis; the driving forces behind Indian Ink Theatre Company. They produce a kind of theatre like no other and they bring it off superbly well.
PICKLE: Fact and fiction are put into the blender to create a beautifully poignant piece of theatre.
Humour, charm and simplicity underpin the the tale that is spun in The Candlestickmaker.
