Following its premiere in May, Ramesh Meyyappan presents his new work Snails & Ketchup, a small-scale solo performance aimed at adult (10+) audiences. It is supported by an Unlimited Commission for the Cultural Olympiad and is a major move in Ramesh’s career, involving new aerial performance techniques and an extended creative team.
Snails & Ketchup
Inspired by Italo Calvino’s ‘Baron in the Trees’, Snails & Ketchup is the darkly comic tale of a dysfunctional family. A frenzied and disappointed son takes to the trees to live an “arboreal existence” in disgust at his ever-changing home and brutal environment.
Snails & Ketchup is a dark work powerfully told by solo performer Ramesh Meyyappan’s masterful storytelling. Using physical performance, an ingenious aerial set and aerial choreography, projections and a live score played by David Paul Jones, the story poignantly highlights that despite familial love being unconditional, it is not always possible.
Created and Performed by Ramesh Meyyappan
Co-Devised by Ramesh Meyyappan & Hamish Pirie
Director: Josette Bushell-Mingo
Aerial Choreography: Jennifer Paterson & Lucy Deacon
Aerial Rigging / Production Management: Topher Dagg aka Ropemonkey
Lightng Design: Alberto Santos Bellido
Animation: Marta Mackovà
Music Composition: Tze
Assistant Producer: Natasha Lee-Walsh
Communication: Camille Beaumier
Ramesh Meyyappan
A Glasgow-based Singaporean, Ramesh is a multi-faceted deaf practitioner who has developed performances using a range of visual and physical theatre styles. For the past 10 years, his solo performances and collaborations have toured nationally and internationally to much critical acclaim. Indeed his last performance, Gin & Tonic & Passing Trains secured him a Best Actor award at the Life! Theatre Awards (Singapore) as well as being one of the critics’ picks in Singapore.
04/08/2011 – 08/08/2011
10/08/2011 – 15/08/2011
17/08/2011 – 22/08/2011
24/08/2011 – 28/08/2011
5pm (one-hour performance)
New Town Theatre, Freemasons Hall, 96 George St, Edinburgh, EH2 3DH
Book tickets through the Edinburgh Fringe website here
