DIRECTOR'S NOTE
A painter painting a poet writing a poem...
This was the initial spark that led Tom Stoppard to the writing of Indian Ink. From this image a conversation began, a conversation between disciplines that grew to a conversation across cultures and across time.
Every conversation is an attempt to get to know another person a little more deeply, as well as to communicate more clearly who we are. But ultimately, we can never know another person comprehensively. Nor, I would posit, can we ever know ourselves completely. We are in a constant mode of discovery, both of ourselves and of the other.
Every character in this play has very strong opinions. The piece is a journey of each of them having their presumptions upended. But instead of a strong pendulum swing in the opposite direction, these characters begin to find a place of mutual understanding somewhere in the middle.
This play understands the grey area. It is not a dull place, but a place that allows for complexity, and is all the more beautiful because of it.
Patrick Mulryan
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thank you to our amazing supporters: Hannah and Bev Corwin, Megan Smith, Neva Tamsen, Walter Murphy, Chris Martin, Jennifer Jewell, Suzanne Kennedy, Dianna and Bruce St. Dennis, Jane Leonardo, Lynda St. Dennis, The Actor's Fund, ART New York, Fractured Atlas.
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