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Ramesh Meyyappan
With nothing for company other than his thoughts, an intermittent wireless and the sound of trains rushing past, the Signalman starts to feel trapped in his damp rickety signal box, soon the loneliness, the responsibilities and the endless sounds of bells, drive him to distraction or more precisely to the bottom of a glass. What starts as a tipple at four slowly turns into a torrent at six and by ten he is being visited by all sorts of spirits. How will he cope when he has unexpected visitors will it be the tipple that makes him topple or will he be pulled back from the drink? Influenced by the classic Charles Dickens ghost story ‘The Signalman’ this new visual tale will leave you in no doubt that Gin and Trains do not make the perfect tonic. “…by now you will have realised that he speaks, eloquently, with every inch of his being.” – The Herald, Glasgow “Sublime storytelling, pure and simple. Meyyappan out-Dickenses Dickens… cheeky, magical and sickening.” The Flying Inkpot, Singapore Created & Performed: Ramesh Meyyappan |
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Venue: Gallaudet University Friday, March 5 at 8:00 PM General Admission: $15 BUY TICKETS! |
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A visual, comic tale of one man who has too much time on hands and the question of how to fill it. Drawing upon various disciplines such as, object animation, mime, clown, bold storytelling and strong characterisation. Gin and Tonic and Passing Trains is ‘total’ theatre with the performer at the centre of its creative force.
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Ramesh Meyyappan, a Singaporean based in Glasgow, is a multi-faceted deaf practitioner who collaborates and develops performance projects, delivers a range of workshops and masterclasses and directs.
He has developed performances using a range of visual and physical theatre styles, ensuring accessibility to both deaf and hearing audiences. For the past 10 years his solo performances and collaborations have toured nationally and internationally. His work has earned much critical acclaim around the world, indeed his last performance Gin & Tonic & Passing Trains secured him a Best Actor award – Life! Theatre Awards (Singapore) as well as being one of the critics’ picks in Singapore.
Ramesh is now also the artistic director of Little Beacon, a theatre company set up in Scotland in 2009 working towards creating visual theatre.
