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.
Paradise Or The Impermanence Of Ice Cream Review
A part of our Creative Team series, leading set designer John Verryt talks about a dentist’s chair, a dairy and other Ink productions.
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.
In our blog series about our creative teams, Murray Edmond, talks about comedy, tragedy and dramaturgy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.