About the Play:

Indian Ink is a full-length comedy by Tom Stoppard. The alternation of place and period makes for a rich and moving exploration of intimate lives set against one of the great shifts of history, the emergence of the Indian sub-continent from the grip of Empire.

Flora Crewe, an unconventional, young English poet living in India in 1930, is having her portrait painted by local artist Nairad Das and writing letters home to her sister Nell. Intermittent scenes, which are set in England in 1980, focus on Nell as she sorts through the cherished letters to aid Flora's would be biographer, Eldon Pike. Within this context, Indian Ink (based on Tom Stoppard's radio play In the Native State) weaves a captivating, whimsical love story that underscores aspects of relationships between cultures and between the sexes that are indelible.

Cast: 4 female, 14 male

What people say:

"A celebration of the power of art and an elegy for its secrets." — The Sunday Times (London)

"Moving and intelligent." — The Guardian (London)

"Charming." — Financial Times (London)

"An evening of wry, romantic melancholia." — The Evening Standard (London)

"A moving and entertaining evening; funny, sad, and touchingly gently." — The Sunday Mail (London)

"This sad, funny play is a wonderfully affectionate remembrance of things past." — The Daily Telegraph (London)

About the Playwright:

Sir Tom Stoppard (born Tomás Straüssler) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter. His family had to flee to Singapore at the onset of the Nazi invasion. The family moved to England in 1946, where he left school at the age of seventeen to work for The Western Daily Press, in Bristol. He was catapulted into the front ranks of modern playwrights overnight when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead opened in London in 1967, for which he was awarded a Tony, the Prix Italia, the New York Critic's Award, and Plays and Players Award for Best New Play. He has written prolifically for TV, radio, film and stage, and in 1998 shared a best original screenplay Oscar for Shakespeare in Love. He was knighted in 1997.