Inside the booth – with Andrew Potvin
One of the questions I asked Andrew during this interview was “What are the different jobs you do?” but upon hearing his answer, the more apt question would have been “What jobs don’t you do?”.
Continue ReadingPuppetry – Behind the bird with Jon Coddington
The beauty of puppetry is you get to see the final product as it’s being made. An actor can’t watch themselves do it. An artist will have to wait till the end of the painting. But I’m seeing it as it’s happening.
Continue ReadingDramaturgy – the extra ‘brains’ behind the operation
Have you ever found yourself lost in thought whilst staring into space, laying in a meadow wondering “what is a dramaturge?”
No? Well, neither have I.
Mainly because before I’d seen my first Indian Ink play, I’d never come across one before.
Set Design – making space for magic
So watching Paradise or the Impermanence of Ice Cream got me thinking… 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.
Continue ReadingCharacter – where imagination comes to life
The audience put themselves into the character, and that’s the trick. We enter as individuals into the theater, and then we leave as an audience, and we take these characters with us.
Continue ReadingWriting – bringing ideas to the page
In the second instalment of my series to steal all of Indian Ink’s ideas and start a rival, more successful…
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