Welcome to the Murder House

Indian Ink is one of New Zealand's most successful theatre companies. For almost 20 years we've been creating work that is beautiful, funny, sad and true with a reputation for "total theatre which offers humanity and psychological insight in a package of good plain laughs, luminous performances and brilliant staging" (Dominion Post, NZ).  We want to leave an indelible imprint on your heart.

And now we've been offered a once in a lifetime opportunity! Jacob Rajan and Justin Lewis have been asked by one of America's most influential producers of new writing, South Coast Repertory Theatre (SCR), to write a new play. We're their first New Zealand collaboration and if successful, it'll give us a chance to do things creatively that we haven't been able to do before. We're talking bigger casts, US scale production values and lots of theatre! 

Our new play, Welcome to the Murder Houseis inspired by the Grand Guignol and features horror, humour and sex delivered with Indian Ink's trademark wit, pathos and great storytelling.

We've been working closely with SCR including time in LA earlier this year. Now we need to work with our composer, dramaturge and actors to try out ideas and knock the script into shape. The Americans are coming to see what we've got. We need help to fund this next stage of development.

We reckon they'll like it and if they do, they'll fund the production from there on in. It'll be bigger than Texas for us.

Then we bring it home to NZ!

How you can help

You can help us reach our target by donating to our crowdfunding campaign on Boosted.

And if you can share this page with your networks that would also be really helpful:  www.boosted.org.nz/projects/welcome-to-the-murder-house

It's possible to make a donation via cheque or bank transfer too, just contact us on info@indianink.co.nz or (09) 815 3302 and we'll help.

Any contribution big or small will make a huge difference.

Thank you!