Celebrated theatre company Indian Ink is undertaking an 11-centre national tour of its new work Paradise or the Impermanence of Ice Cream.
With the company's immediate international travel plans on hold, Kiwis all over Aotearoa can enjoy its latest production in their most ambitious national tour so far that got under way on May 20 and concludes on September 2.
The large-scale New Zealand tour precedes a confirmed North American tour in 2022.
Our lives are but melting icecream and the transition between this world and the next is never easy, but it's made profoundly more difficult when your guide is a vulture.
A man trying desperately to avoid death is flung between limbo and his past where a rebellious young woman from Mumbai's enigmatic Parsi community – a people whose faith is entwined with the vulture - holds the key that may deliver him to paradise.
Selling out its two-week preview season in 2020, Paradise showcases the incredible talents of one of New Zealand's most treasured actors – Jacob Rajan (MNZM) - as he delivers a dazzling solo performance channelling seven characters, while weaving the afterlife and a dash of Bollywood disco into the real-life mystery of India's vanishing vultures.
True to the beloved Indian Ink style, Paradise is rife with mischief, intelligence, exquisite puppetry, inspired sound design and comic originality.