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Indian Ink: A Play
Tom Stoppard
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Description for Indian Ink: A Play
Paperback. A Tom Stoppard play in which a young English poet visits India in 1930 and finds herself poised between two very different societies. Flora has her portrait painted by an Indian artist, and 60 years later the portrait, the artist's son and Flora's sister come together in London. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 127 x 8. Weight in Grams: 87.
Flora Crewe, a young poet travelling India in 1930, has her portrait painted by a local artist. More than fifty years later, the artist's son visits Flora's sister in London while her would-be biographer is following a cold trail in India.
The alternation of place and period in Tom Stoppard's play (based on his radio play In the Native State) 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.
Indian Ink was first performed at the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571175567
SKU
V9780571175567
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Ref
99-99
About Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard's work includes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, After Magritte, Dirty Linen, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink, The Invention of Love, the trilogy The Coast of Utopia, Rock 'n' Roll, The Hard Problem and Leopoldstadt. His radio plays include If You're Glad I'll ... Read more
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