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Actor Jacob Rajan looking confused while holding a melting ice cream cone. He is wearing a white collared shirt. The background is a dreamy orange and pink with a silhouette of a bird and lush pink and white clouds.

Paradise or the Impermanence of Ice Cream Review

“Jacob Rajan takes his audience on a wild ride to Paradise. On the way, we also get a tour of the chaotic and cosmopolitan Mumbai (or as the Parsis still call it – Bombay).”

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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.

Paradise or the Impermanence of Ice Cream Review

“…the standing ovation at the end was well deserved.”

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

Paradise or the Impermanence of Ice Cream traces its inspiration to Mumbai and a striking funeral rite

New Zealand playwright-performer Jacob Rajan explores mortality with an eerily lifelike vulture puppet

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Jacob Rajan looks into the distance with a bird silhouette in the background

Paradise, Parsi traditions, kulfi, and a vulture come together in comedic Cultch play on humanity’s quest for immortality

Auckland-based theatre artist Jacob Rajan has done something completely different as a cowriter and performer in an upcoming production at the Cultch.

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Catherine Yates as a Cleaner with a mop with bursts of colour. Words Dirty Work An Ode to Joy printed over the image

Dirty Work 2023 Press Release

Office politics, choirs and unsung heroes: Indian Ink premieres their biggest show ever!

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Actor Jacob Rajan stands with a surprised look on his face holding a lantern

Guru of Chai: An India of Jacob Rajan’s imagination

Rajan who takes on the delightful role of the guru as well as 17 characters in Guru of Chai, says the play is based on an Indian fairy tale.

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Actor Jacob Rajan sits as Emperor Shah Jahan wearing a blue half face mask in front of colourful background

Krishnan’s Dairy: Here’s to a national treasure and one of our greatest shows

OPINION: One of the greatest New Zealand shows of all-time, take a bow.

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Jacob Rajan as Gobi in Krishnan’s Dairy holding 3 buckets of flowers

As Fresh, Remarkable and Astonishing as ever

My memory of witnessing the wondrous alchemy of Jacob Rajan’s performance in Krishnan’s Dairy 25 years ago at BATS is vivid.

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Actor Jacob Rajan sits as Emperor Shah Jahan wearing a blue half face mask in front of colourful background

Krishnan’s Dairy

A wise man once told me that real loves grows, and so does my love of Indian Ink’s now legendary tale of Krishnan’s Dairy

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Jacob Rajan sits on a stool wearing a white long shelved shirt with strips and black jeans.

Theatre legend says goodbye to breakthrough role after 25 years

Rajan said he had a deeper connection with the play now, at the age of 56, than he did when he first performed it in his 20s.

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Actor Jacob Rajan as Zina with a half face mask looking over a toy baby in a cradle

An Enduring, Honest and Mesmerising Milestone in New Zealand Theatre

After 25 years I haven’t forgotten about the mask…

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Balloons are being thrown around a room with fairy lights on in the background

Theatre review: Krishnan’s Dairy and Mrs Krishnan’s Party

How many theatre companies in New Zealand can boast about the fact their debut show was so successful, that it’s still touring the country 25 years later?

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