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Eking out a living painting the portraits of idle English colonists in pre-mutiny India, Monsieur Perin is summoned, not for the first time, to the home of Magistrate Jackson to render the likeness of the latters cherubic grandsons. Upon his arrival, however, Perin finds the family mad with grief - his subjects having fallen prey to a cobra whilst playing in the yellowed and stagnant tall grasses.

The Jackson family - sadistic, imperious and filled with the blinkered self-importance of their assumed positions in a foreign country - claim that the servant girl and ladies companion, Zeli, was...

"Robert Clive's suicide (1774), Rajah Nandakumar's hanging (1775), to Ellenborough's grabbing of the Gwalior throne (1843), and Ram Mohan Roy's embassy on behalf of Akbar II, and his untimely death in England (1833); the Gurkha Wars (1814-16) and the First Afghan War (1838-1842) - started, unnecessarily, in the midst of the ferocious famine of 1837-
One ring and one narrative, binds them all together.
The stage is set in 19th-century India-a time when racial prejudice is beginning to harden with the support of the law makers. What seems to be an innocent circus performance...