Puppetry – 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.

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Dramaturgy – 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.

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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.

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Character – 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.

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Writing – 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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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 and the Impermanence of Ice Cream.

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