INDIAN INK

Name: INDIAN INK
Start: 2025-12-03T00:00:00
End: 2026-02-07T23:59:00
Location: Hampstead Theatre

Desmond's comment

With the recent loss of Tom Stoppard, this first major revival of Indian Ink, adapted from the playwright's personal favourite radio play, is a poignant tribute that shouldn't be missed.

Run Dates

2025.12.03 ~ 2026.02.07

Hampstead Theatre

About the show

1930, India. Flora Crewe, a noted Bloomsbury Group poet, undertakes a journey through India for her health. Free-spirited and without social inhibitions she unsettles most people she meets, but secretly captivates Nirad Das, a handsome Indian painter. 1980s England. Flora's sister, Mrs Swan, is visited by an American biographer trying to uncover exactly what took place on the trip – and then Das' son appears in her garden with a painting of Flora by his father – a nude… Satirising the self-importance of both academia and the ruling class, Tom Stoppard's Indian Ink is an evocative meditation on art and love, exploring how creativity can bridge even the most profound cultural barriers.

Creatives

Tom Stoppard

Playwright/Author

Jonathan Kent

Director

Finlay Glen

Assistant Director

Kuljit Bhamra

Composer

Leslie Travers

Set Designer

Nicky Shaw

Costume Designer

Peter Mumford

Lighting Designer

Christopher Shutt

Sound Designer

Amy Ball

Casting

Sagar Arya

Cast(Coomaraswami)

Ruby Ashbourne Serkis

Cast(Flora Crewe)

Mark Carlisle

Cast(Resident)

Neil D'Souza

Cast(Dilip)

Tom Durant-Pritchard

Cast(David Durance)

Aaron Gill

Cast(Anish Das)

Irvine Iqbal

Cast(Rajah / Politician)

Details

Writer: Tom Stoppard Director: Jonathan Kent Set Designer: Leslie Travers Costume Designer: Nicky Shaw Lighting Designer: Peter Mumford Sound Designer: Christopher Shutt Composer: Kuljit Bhamra Casting Director: Amy Ball Assistant Director: Finlay Glen Cast: Sagar Arya (Coomaraswami), Ruby Ashbourne Serkis (Flora Crewe), Mark Carlisle (Resident), Neil D'Souza (Dilip), Tom Durant-Pritchard (David Durance), Aaron Gill (Anish Das), Irvine Iqbal (Rajah/Politician), Felicity Kendal (Mrs Swan), Donald Sage Mackay (Eldon Pike), Evan Milton (Englishman/Eric), Bethany Muir (Englishwoman/Nell), Sushant Shekhar (Nazrul), Gavi Singh Chera (Nirad Das)

Where it's been performed

Hampstead Theatre

London

United Kingdom

London

United Kingdom

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