Snails and Ketchup
Snails and Ketchup
- Production Company/Performer
- Ramesh Meyyappan & Iron-Oxide
- Category
- Dance & Physical Theatre
- Homepage
- http://www.rameshmeyyappan.com/
- Synopsis
Inspired by Italo Calvino’s ‘Baron in the Trees’, SNAILS & KETCHUP is the darkly comic tale of a dysfunctional, quirky family and follows a disillusioned son taking to the trees to live an arboreal existence in disgust at his ever changing, brutal home environment.
Powerfully told through solo performer Ramesh Meyyappan’s masterful storytelling, it uses imaginative physicality, an ingenious aerial set, aerial choreography, nimation and live score, to poignantly unfold the life of a boy, from traumatic birth to a typical family dinner...
- Background
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.
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