Indi­an Ink Theatre Com­pany present their latest show writ­ten by Jac­ob Rajan and Justin Lewis  and com­mis­sioned by Amer­ic­an theatre com­pany South Coast Rep­er­tory Theatre. Wel­come to the Murder House is a deli­ciously dark tragedy of com­ic pro­por­tions.

The dawn­ing of the elec­tric age in 1890’s Amer­ica brought about massive tech­no­lo­gic­al and social change cre­at­ing win­ners and losers. A gang of death row con­victs are set free for one wild night to tell the tra­gic story of their hero: the man who inven­ted the elec­tric chair. These con­victs give an iron­ic twist to the true tale of how Thomas Edis­on and a dent­ist become entangled in this inven­tion in the name of pro­gress. The fic­tion­al injec­tion of real Indi­an sci­ent­ist Chandra Bose (whose world-lead­ing research into elec­tri­city was ahead of its time) gives an Indi­an Ink twist to the telling.  

The play marks the return of Indi­an Ink’s co-founder Jac­ob Rajan and award-win­ning musi­cian Dav­id Ward to the New Zea­l­and stage for the world premiere. Com­plet­ing the cast are Quentin War­ren, Jacque Drew, and Patrick Car­roll who tackle a ser­i­ous sub­ject with humour and sass and por­tray mul­tiple char­ac­ters between them. Presen­ted in dynam­ic vaudevil­lian style the show fea­tures com­edy, pup­petry, live music, song and dance.