PARADISE OR THE IMPERMANENCE OF ICE CREAM

THE COURT THEATRE | 19 – 28 September

Our lives are but melting ice cream 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

Having enchanted audiences in North America and at the Sydney Festival, The Court Theatre is delighted to announce the Christchurch premiere season of Paradise or the Impermanence of Ice Cream by legendary New Zealand theatre company, Indian Ink.

Inspired by Ernest Becker’s Pulitzer prize-winning treatise The Denial of Death, and infused with laughter, Paradise blows your mind while melting your heart faster than an ice cream on a Mumbai summer day. 

The critically-acclaimed production 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.

 The story follows Kutisar on his post-mortem journey when he encounters feisty Meera on a madcap quest to save the critically endangered vultures that play a vital role in Parsi sky burials. 

Loaded with warmth and depth, Paradise is a moving production that melds playful puppetry with thought-provoking musings on the eternal afterlife, the looming extinction of India’s sacred vultures, and the beauty and value of the fleeting and ephemeral. 

Sandra Roberts Publicity

M + 64 21 525 104     E sandra@skip.co.nz

M + 64 21 525 104
E sandra@skip.co.nz