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Actor Jacob Rajan wearing a nose mask and dressed as a bell boy holds a suitcase while facing directly up towards the camera on the ceiling

The Pickle King By British Theatre Guide, London

Indian Ink come from New Zealand and they provide boundless imagination, a willingness to experiment with form and a touching fairy tale that together hold the interest.

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Actor wearing a long oversized face mask stands in front of a globe wearing a suit

The Press – The Pickle King: Sweet And Sour

You have to hand it to Jacob Rajan and Justin Lewis; the driving forces behind Indian Ink Theatre Company. They produce a kind of theatre like no other and they bring it off superbly well.

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An Actor in an oversized face mask with a circular nose looks intently at their hands

The Pickle King: Perfect Recipe

PICKLE: Fact and fiction are put into the blender to create a beautifully poignant piece of theatre.

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Actor Kate Parker stands leaning over while holding a duck puppet. Actor Jacob Rajan kneels while patting the duck and holding a book.

Candlestick: Enchantment

Humour, charm and simplicity underpin the the tale that is spun in The Candlestickmaker.

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Actor sits kneeling in the foreground while singing. Jacob Rajan sits in the background playing an instrument with another actor next to him playing a gutair.

Candlestick: Homegrown Plays Delve Into Past And Future

The Candlestickmaker is the transliterated nickname fellow physicists in the US gave to Subramanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995) – most famous for imagining and calculating the probability of black holes.

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Actor Kate Parker stands leaning over while holding a duck puppet. Actor Jacob Rajan kneels while patting the duck and holding a book.

Rajan Had Proved Again His Winning Formula – Listener

Out of the dairy, into the cosmos. White dwarfs, black holes and the LONELY PLANET are the inspiration for the latest collaboration from the team that gave us Krishnan’s Dairy.

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

Melbourne Age – Krishnan’s Dairy

New Zealand theatre company Indian Ink has toured the globe with Krishnan’s Dairy, justly garnering rave reviews.

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

Simple yet Powerful

This 1997 New Zealand production first warmed hearts in Singapore last year, when it played to sold-out audiences and received rave reviews.

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

Tasty Choices Caught in the Traverse’s Dramatic Net

Jacob Rajan tells the tale of the Indian corner shop that Gobi Krishnan runs with his wife Zina

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