Rupert Murdoch’s powers on full display in ‘Ink’
‘Ink’Through Sept. 24Round House Theatre4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814$46-$94Roundhousetheatre.org Yes, Rupert Murdoch’s loathsome traits are many, but his skills to succeed are undeniably numerous.
In the first scenes of John Graham’s West End and Broadway hit drama “Ink,” an exciting year-long detail from the life of a burgeoning media baron, Murdoch’s powers of persuasion are on full display.
It’s 1969 London. Over dinner with editor Larry Lamb, a young Murdoch shares his plan to buy the Sun and rebrand the dying broadsheet, replacing the Daily Mirror as Britain’s best-selling tabloid.
What’s more, he wants to do it in just one year with Lamb at the helm. Initially reluctant, Lamb becomes seduced by the idea of running a paper, something that’s always eluded him throughout his career, and something Murdoch, the outsider Australian, understands.
