Tom Stoppard’s time-hopping drama enjoys an evocative revival
The sad passing of Tom Stoppard last month adds a particular poignancy to this revival of Indian Ink, his intriguing drama set in two different time periods. And it is a real joy that Felicity Kendal, who was in the original 1995 production, has returned, playing a different central character. She established the role of Flora Crewe, the lively young Bloomsbury Group poet travelling in India in 1930, who has her portrait painted by local artist Nirad Das (here Gavi Singh Chera). Now she plays Flora’s younger sister Eleanor in the 1980s, who is visited by Nirad’s son Anish (Aaron Gill), as she makes it her mission to read and bring order to her sister’s letters. Flora (Ruby Ashbourne Serkis making the role her own from the getgo), an evident life force in that earlier time period, is defiantly fighting a terminal illness, so it’s no spoiler to reveal that she predeceases her younger sister by some decades.
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