The authors of two plays produced at Center Stage last season have received prestigious awards in New York. Wednesdays through Sundays, with matinees at 1: 30 p.m. Show times at the Studio Theatre, 1333 P St. Studio spent six months casting the show, and while the secondary performances are not all up to the level of the leads, this is more than a valiant effort - it is a deeply felt one.
Art and romance are inseparably linked for them, and that link is the crucial clue Pike and his ilk will never discover.Īlthough Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for "Shakespeare in Love," is a hot commodity, "Indian Ink" has had little exposure in this country, probably because of the large size and racial makeup of the cast.
The scenes between Keating's Flora and Faran Tahir's Nirad are charged with both artistic and romantic fervor. What Pike is trying to unravel turns out to be the relationship between Flora and an Indian artist named Nirad Das, who painted her portrait while she was in the country giving literary lectures and hoping the warm climate would prove beneficial to her failing health. The action cleverly alternates between past and present, and though designer Russell Metheny uses a turntable set, for most of the play we witness both time periods at once, frequently to amusing effect.įor example, in keeping with Stoppard's theme of the impossibility of grasping the past, we see Pike spewing his misinterpreted footnotes off to the side of the stage at the same time that the action we are witnessing in India contradicts his words. Now working on another posthumous volume, this time a collection of Flora's letters, Pike visits Flora's septuagenarian sister, Eleanor, at her home in England.
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