From Tony Awardwinning playwright Tom Stoppard Indian Ink is a rich and moving portrait of intimate lives set against one of the great shafts of historythe emergence of the Indian subcontinent from the grip of Europe The play follows freespirited English poet Flora Crewe on her travels through India in the 1930s where her intricate relationship with an Indian artist unfurls against the backdrop of a country seeking its independence Fifty years later in 1980s England her younger sister Eleanor attempts to preserve the legacy of Floras controversial career while Floras wouldbe biographer is following a cold trail in India Fresh from the critically acclaimed offBroadway performance in 2014 Indian Ink is reemerging as an important part of Stoppards oeuvre and the global dramatic canon a fascinating timehopping masterworkFrom Tony Awardwinning playwright Tom Stoppard Indian Ink is a rich and moving portrait of intimate lives set against one of the great shafts of historythe emergence of the Indian subcontinent from the grip of Europe The play follows freespirited English poet Flora Crewe on her travels through India in the 1930s where her intricate relationship with an Indian artist unfurls against the backdrop of a country seeking its independence Fifty years later in 1980s England her younger sister Eleanor attempts to preserve the legacy of Floras controversial career while Floras wouldbe biographer is following a cold trail in India Fresh from the critically acclaimed offBroadway performance in 2014 Indian Ink is reemerging as an important part of Stoppards oeuvre and the global dramatic canon a fascinating timehopping masterwork