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Behind the

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Jacob Rajan and Justin Lewis sit in front of a yellow wall laughing

Let’s Play

A serendipitous meeting between Jacob Rajan and Justin Lewis has since evolved to become one of New Zealand’s strongest artistic partnerships. Now, the co-founders of Indian Ink are preparing to celebrate the theatre company’s 25-year anniversary.

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Puppeteer Jon Coddington with Gerry the Vulture puppet facing Actor Jacob Rajan in a pink shirt

Paradise Featurette

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Actor Jacob Rajan reaches for the sky with an expression of joy on his face. The background is black with colorful large light spots that are blue, orange, and red. Jacob is in a velvety red blouse with a green undershirt.

Eyes On Wellington: Paradise Or The Impermanence Of Ice Cream Review

Paradise Or The Impermanence Of Ice Cream Review

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John Verryt sits at his design desk with pencil and paper. Behind him are models of his past sets

Behind The Mask: Our Set Designer

A part of our Creative Team series, leading set designer John Verryt talks about a dentist’s chair, a dairy and other Ink productions.

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Elizabeth Whiting sits on a soft chair looking into the camera

Behind The Mask: Costume Design

In our blog series on our creative teams, Elizabeth Whiting discusses how she got into the arts and why costume design fits her so well.

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Murray Edmond stands in front of a wall of Indian Ink Posters

Behind The Mask: Dramaturgy

In our blog series about our creative teams, Murray Edmond, talks about comedy, tragedy and dramaturgy.

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David Ward sits in front of his desk holding a banjo on his knee

Behind The Mask: Music

In our blog series on our creative teams, composer and musician, David Ward, sits down to talk about jazz, how he got into music, and what it’s like to compose for theatre.

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Andrew in front of the Salt Lake City venue, Utah Presents.

Behind The Mask: Production Management

Just before he took off for Mrs Krishnan’s Party‘s second North American tour of the year, we caught up with Andrew Potvin to talk about the States, the Arts and the state of the arts.

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Jane sits at her desk with her computers in her living room

Behind The Mask: Our Lighting Designer

In our blog series about our creative teams, lighting designer, Jane Hakaraia, talks about illuminating Ink’s plays, colour psychology and how tinsel makes fire.

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Justin Lewis writing notes on postit notes and attaching this to a large white piece of paper on the wall.

Writing – Bringing Ideas To The Page

In this instalment of the series to steal all of Indian Ink’s ideas and start a rival, more successful theatre company, I zoomed Justin to get his thoughts on the writing process.

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Jacob Rajan and Justin Lewis stand in front of the water on a boardwalk

Research – The Heart Of Playwriting

With Indian Ink’s new play flying in from the horizon I sat down face to face (well, face to laptop to laptop to face) with Jacob Rajan as he discussed the inspiration and background for Paradise or the Impermanence of Ice Cream.

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Actor Jacob Rajan and Gerry the vulture stand in front of the Mumbai skyline from the rooftop above Mehra’s kulfi shop. This photo is from the rehearsal space before the show.

Set Design – Making Space For Magic

How does a theatre company go about making the sets for their shows? And how the heck do they transport them all across the world? I tracked down Indian Ink’s very own set designer John Verryt for some answers.

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