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	Indian Ink Study Guide by Tom Stoppard: Introduction
		His two-act play Indian Ink (1994) is based on his earlier radio play In the Native State and was first performed in London in 1995.
		Indian Ink takes place in two different locations and time periods: India in 1930, during the struggle for national independence from British colonial rule, and England in the mid-1980s.
		This play is concerned primarily with the historical and cultural struggles in India to gain independence from British Imperial rule.
	www.bookrags.com /studyguide-indianink/intro.html (274 words)

	Indian Ink - MyBindi.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Indian Ink premiered in London in 1995 and had its North American premiere in San Francisco in 1999.
		Indian Ink is set in 1930's India, where the English poet, Flora Crewe (Fiona Reid) befriends a widowed painter, Nirad Das (Sanjay Talwar).
		To be fair, several stereotypes were also at play with the English characters in Indian Ink: Flora Crewe parodies the carefree, hedonistic "flapper" of the 30's, making mockery of the drinking and debauchery associated with the literary talents of the time.
	www.mybindi.com /arts-entertainment/whatson/indianink.cfm (615 words)

	Tom Stoppard - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		One of Stoppard's most famous works is Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, a comedic play which casts two minor characters from Hamlet as its leads but with the same lack of power to affect their world or exterior circumstances as they have in Shakespeare's original.
		Stoppard's plays are plays of ideas that deal with philosophical issues, yet he combines the philosophical ideas he presents with verbal wit and visual humor.
		The play concerns a dissident under an oppressive regime (obviously meant to be taken for a Soviet controlled state) who is imprisoned in a mental hospital, from which he will not be released until he admits that his statements against the government were caused by a (non-existent) mental disorder.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Tom_Stoppard (992 words)

	Indian Ink
		Part of the pleasure of seeing his plays is to be exposed to cultural and historical materials one has not previously explored.
		The leads, Susan Gibney as Flora, and Art Malik as her Indian artist friend, Nirad Das, are first rate in every way, wryly catching both the chemistry and the cross cultural difficulties of the central relationship in the play.
		Jean Stapleton, playing Flora's sister, retains her delicious sense of comic timing, but her generic American accent was inappropriate and off-putting, her projection on opening night was poor, and her flubbed lines probably should be blamed on what seemed an inadequately rehearsed show.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater/IndianInk.htm (750 words)

	Indian Ink (play) Summary
		Tom Stoppard achieved almost overnight success in 1967 with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which was commissioned for the National Theatre at the Old Vic, following the initial run of a shorter version at the Edinburgh Festival the previous year....
		Indian Ink is a 1995 play by Tom Stoppard, based upon his 1991 radio play In the Native State.
		The play had its American premiere in 1999 at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, California.
	www.bookrags.com /Indian_Ink_(play) (239 words)

	Stoppard's India
		"Indian Ink" both predates and succeeds "Arcadia." Stoppard wrote it as a radio play, "In the Native State," for the BBC in 1991, then revised and expanded it for the stage in '95.
		It is, to some degree, his Raj play, drawing on his childhood memories of northern India, where the young Czech, his mother and older brother were refugees (having first fled to Singapore) from 1942 to '46.
		Conrad's strong, smitten Durance, Steven Anthony Jones as a self-important Indian theosophist and Roxanne Raja as Eleanor's younger self are bright standouts in a large, uneven ensemble.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/1999/02/25/STYLE1671.dtl&type=printable (1158 words)

	Pittsburgh City Paper - ONLINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Indian Ink is the story of a British bohemian poet, Flora Crewe (played by Robin Walsh), who in the 1930s travels to India and meets a variety of characters who confront her misconceptions of, and discomfort with, the cultural and political tensions born out of British imperialism.
		Boos suggests that Indian Ink might be an opportunity for the local Indian-American audience to see something different -- something that might touch upon a part of their history -- though she’s been a bit squeamish about doing so.
		Ink has contemporary relevance for an immigrant group that, for the most part, is only 30 years young, with little visibility in mainstream America.
	www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws /prev/archives/covarch/cov02/cv80702.html (3712 words)

	Metroactive Stage \| Indian Ink
		Indian Ink has a quip or two of its own, but it is still one of the playwright's slightest productions to date.
		Despite the rampant echolalia, Indian Ink is a fairly enjoyable experience, particularly for aficionados of Anglo-Indian literature like John Masters' Nightrunners of Bengal, J.G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur, E.M. Forster's A Passage to India and Paul Scott's The Raj Quartet.
		Indian Ink may not cause you to lie awake at night and brood, as did Arcadia, but it will tide you over until The Invention of Love comes to our shores.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/03.04.99/stage3-9909.html (456 words)

	Indian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Look up Indian and Indians in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
		Indigenous peoples of the Americas, American Indians, the aboriginal people of the Americas and their descendants
		Cleveland Indians, a baseball team in the United States
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indian (114 words)

	CNNSI.com - Cricket - Reports: Indian cricketers sign ICC contracts - Friday January 10, 2003 06:50 AM
		The Indian board refused to comment, but PTI reported that the players had put specific riders on certain clauses which they had protested against.
		The Indian cricket board has supported its players, saying they should not be forced to breach existing contracts with personal sponsors.
		The Indian board said that 80 percent of the world's cricket revenue comes from India and the ICC should be more considerate to its players.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /cricket/news/2003/01/10/icc_india (488 words)

	indian ink theatre company
		You see writing a play isn't rocket science but astrophysics is. There were some points when we just ran out of brain.
		This synthesis is embodied in the inspiration for this play, Subramanyan Chandrasekah, and it is to him and his family that I owe the greatest apology if I have caused any offense.
		I hope this is not the case and that The Candlestickmaker is viewed in the spirit that it was intended: a tribute to Chandra, a man who slipped in and out of the last century with little fanfare, but quietly changed the way we look at the universe.
	www.indianink.co.nz /show-cm-jacob.html (401 words)

	indian ink theatre company
		Indian Ink is one of New Zealand's most successful theatre companies with a reputation for "total theatre which offers humanity and psychological insight in a package of good plain laughs, luminous performances and brilliant staging" (Dominion Post, NZ).
		The three plays have broken box-office records on the way to a total audience of more than 140, 000 people.
		Indian Ink marinates Western theatrical traditions in Indian flavours but above all seeks to tell good stories that touch people of all cultures.
	www.indianink.co.nz /about-company.html (267 words)

	Indian Ink (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Indian Ink had its first performance at the Yvonne Arnaud theatre, Guildford, and opened at the...
		Indian Ink attempts to justify our cultural milieu by juxtaposing two highly individual and...
		Indian ink (or "India ink" in American English) is a simple fl ink once widely used for...
	www.kl-printer-ink.com /ink/indian-ink-.html (124 words)

	Ink Well
		Its god is Vishnu, and its color is shyama, which is blue-fl.” Blue-fl is, of course, the color of Indian ink, and it provides the outline for this subtle play about erotic love and art and Anglo/Indian politics.
		And what's a Stoppard play without an academic (William Zeilinski at his dorkiest) who is simultaneously mocked and needed; in fact, the structure of the play depends on his popping out of the wings to provide a footnote so that the audience will understand what just happened -- despite his getting it all wrong.
		Indian Ink is full of ideas: about the creation of art, about the relation between art and nationality, and thus about the politics of creativity and passion.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/2002-05-16/theater4.shtml (518 words)

	[03-11-99] Sandip Roy-Chowdhury, Boon for Indophiles: "Indian Ink"-- A Play Written in Colonial Blue
		Indian actors are thrilled to be appearing in Tom Stoppard's play "Indian Ink," which just opened in San Francisco.
		After all, Tom Stoppard's "Indian Ink" is one of the only major English plays out there with roles actually written for Indians.
		So he can cleverly play with the colonial experience by looking at it from the viewpoint of an obtuse academic in the 1980s trying to reconstruct it from the poet's letters and scattered personal effects.
	www.pacificnews.org /jinn/stories/5.05/990311-indianink.html (752 words)

	Online NewsHour: Tom Stoppard- March 10, 1999
		Tom Stoppard, co-writer of the film, "Shakespeare In Love," was in San Francisco for the American premier of his play "Indian Ink." After this background report, he discusses the state of modern theater with Elizabeth Farnsworth.
		He came to San Francisco last month to work with the director on the American premiere of his play "Indian Ink." The work is set in India, where the Czech-born Stoppard spent part of his childhood.
		SPENCER MICHELS: The character, Nirad Das, is an Indian painter, much taken with Flora Crewe, a bohemian British poet visiting India in 1930 for her health.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june99/stoppard_3-10a.html (903 words)

	Passage to `Indian' Has Rewarding End / Stoppard's play complex, smart, funny
		The play's mystery, more ruminative and less compelling than the one that drives ``Arcadia,'' turns on a portrait that may have been done of Flora in the nude.
		``Indian Ink'' is a kind of mural of English-Indian relations, with gin- swilling colonials, coyly deferential servants, a romantic English pragmatist (David Conrad), a sybaritic Rajah (Shelly Desai) and word of Gandhi on the march against the salt tax.
		What the Indians consider ``rebellion'' the English see as ``mutiny.'' The imperialist English language is also, paradoxically, the path to a nationalist independence.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/02/26/DD105421.DTL&type=printable (799 words)

	sfweekly.com \| Culture \| Stage \| News From the Colonies \| 1999-03-03
		I need to clear this up because the current ACT performance is the premiere of Indian Ink on American soil, and because you won't find it clarified in the program notes, and because it wouldn't be above Stoppard to spin a whole script around a minor and meaningless point of grammar.
		The heart of the play is the Sanskrit notion of rasa, or "juice," which refers not only to plants and fruits but also to art.
		And Jean Stapleton plays Flora's sister, Eleanor, the Thatcherish and philistine old lady who keeps the portrait of Flora in her attic because it seems too gaudy and "Indian" to her.
	www.sfweekly.com /issues/1999-03-03/culture/stage.html (1228 words)

	Eye - Spilling Stoppard's Ink - 03.28.02
		Tom Stoppard's Indian Ink -- a quietly elegant and moving drama adapted by the British playwright from an earlier radio play and turned into a modest stage hit in London in 1995 -- is yet another artistic attempt to make sense of India, where Stoppard spent many years.
		The play moves in time and space between India in 1930 and Britain in the 1980s (where Flora's sister now lives), as Stoppard introduces the arduous task of deciphering the past and piecing together a life and an era long gone.
		While Flora may credit her new lease on life to an Indian trip, Reid has learned her lessons from the whirlwind that is life as a Canadian celebrity.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_03.28.02/arts/indianink.html (842 words)

	tribuneindia...Book Reviews
		OM STOPPARD’S new play "Indian Ink", is dedicated to the memory of Laura Kendal, Felicity Kendal’s mother and known to Indians as a talented actress from Shakespeare Wallah, a drama company that once toured India staging plays in many public schools.
		Though the play pretends to deal with the two cultures as equals, it arouses laughter at the jokes made on the natives, especially their petty thievery.
		Multiple points of view of both the English and Indian characters throw ample light on the colonial culture, but seen from the present perspective, it seems there is no past about colonialism, as emphasising the pastness runs the risk of obscuring the countinuities and discontinuities of colonial and imperial influence.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1998/98nov15/book.htm (5050 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews: San Francisco "Indian Ink" and "Inherit the Wind" - 2/28/1999
		The play is a more pointed indictment to today's social McCarthyism where political foes at both ends of the seesaw fight for the sort of freedom of thought that reflects only their own views.
		The play is a dramatic evaluation of the famed Scopes trial that occurred in the little town of Dayton, Tennessee in the mid 20's.
		After seeing the play it really seemed ridiculous that an entire nation could have aroused and flung into two bitter camps because a very small potatoes of a public teacher chose to state the theory of evolution in his classroom.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/sanfran/s16.html (1069 words)

	Eye - Ambitious inertia - 04.11.02
		As is the case in many a Fringe hit, the play is carried by the talents and personalities of the performers, who wrote the piece collectively under the efficient direction of Kerri MacDonald.
		However, while her scenes with Indian artist Nirad Das (Sanjay Talwar) are playful and insightful about the relationships between colonizer and colonized, there is no sign of the sexual energy the two are intended to share.
		Indian Ink is a play with good intentions that is sure to entertain a conservatively liberal audience.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_04.11.02/arts/onstage.html (995 words)

	Quantum Theatre's latest production travels to Allegheny Cemetery - PittsburghLIVE.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		The original productions of "Indian Ink" were done in 1995 - first in a theater in Guildford, England, and then at the Aldwych Theatre in London's West End theater district.
		It was Rodger Henderson, the play's director, who latched on to the idea of performing it in a cemetery.
		The more contemporary thread follows Flora's sister, Eleanor Swan, as she plays hostess to two men - Eldon Pike, an academic and Flora's would-be biographer, and Anish Das, a young Indian hoping to solve the mystery behind a nude portrait that his now-deceased artist father had hidden in the bottom of a trunk.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/s_84856.html (1743 words)

	Theater News - Reviews: Indian Ink -
		So it was a bit of a surprise to hear that his Indian Ink, which bowed on the London stage in 1995, is just now debuting in NYC at the modest Off-Off Broadway Walkerspace downtown.
		Indian Ink concerns a British poet named Flora Crewe who, in 1930, goes to India for the good of her health.
		The heart of Indian Ink is the relationship -- as both friends and fellow artists -- between Flora Crewe and Nirad Das.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/3827 (709 words)

	Indian Ink - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		If an internal link referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
		Indian Ink is a fl pigment used for drawing, especially in calligraphy
		Indian Ink is a 1995 play by Tom Stoppard, based upon his 1991 radio play In the Native State.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indian_Ink (102 words)

	Indian Ink Stage Washington Theater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		The Studio Theater on 14th Street is putting on Tom Stoppard's play Indian Ink, listed as "the East coast premier", and I went to it this afternoon.
		The play is about how people are remembered by their family and seen by the public in different ways and also about the relationship of India and England.
		Also, in another scene, an Indian character was pointing out how the "Indians" had 3,000 years of culture before the English arrived with their mere centuries of culture.
	www.hudsoncity.net /theater/indianink.html (506 words)

	IPTA - Indian Peoples Theatre Association
		According to the organizers, the play could be seen as a fitting end to a festival marked by a variety of forms, traditions and languages.
		While movement was competent as was the case especially with the actor who played Surya, the emotion that emanates from the being of the character and which is the pulse of drama remained largely muted.
		So while this adaptation of the 'beggars' comedy' as the play is popularly referred to succeeds in making a critique at the beginning of the play, it does not progress in the same vein towards an examination of the action of the characters involved.
	iptavarta.blog.com (3202 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Indian Ink: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Indian Ink attempts to justify our cultural milieu by juxtaposing two highly individual and sometimes over-idealistic cultures.
		The staging of this play is superb and the mix of the two cultures - 1930s India and 1980s Britain - highlights the cross-culture fixtures that lend an air of almost fantasy to this highly-lucid play, one instance being the servants which "operate freely between the two periods".
		Granted, the characterisations may lack a little realism, but this is not a play about reality; it is a mix of ideas and observations for the audience to ponder over.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0571175562 (431 words)

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