SKEWERED SNAILS

BY RAMESH MEYYAPPAN in association with IRON-OXIDE

LONDON 2012 CULTURAL OLYMPIAD COMMISSION

SKEWERED SNAILS is the darkly comic tale of a dysfunctional family: authoritarian father, a mother whose tenderness manifests itself in fascinating and disturbing ways towards her children, twin siblings, a boy and a barbaric girl. This is definitely not the recipe for a traditional happy family. Discipline within the family is enforced with military precision by the father, while the mother’s suffocating and ineffectual love borders on parental abuse. The son takes to the woods to live an arboreal existence following a series of horrifically brutal incidents, culminating with him being forced to eat snails and other concoctions made by his sadistic twin sister.  SKEWERED SNAILS is a dark work powerfully told through extensive and imaginative physicality. The wonderfully idiosyncratic narrative is brought to life by a dynamic ensemble cast.

SKEWERED SNAILS grew out of Ramesh’s original solo work SNAILS & KETCHUP that toured successfully in 2011 with sell-out shows in Paris and Singapore before a run at the Edinburgh Fringe as part of the Made in Scotland showcase.

CREDITS:

Created by: Ramesh Meyyappan

Performed by: 
Ramesh Meyyappan
Adura Onashile
Billy Mack
Sita Pieraccini

Devised by: Ramesh Meyyappan and Hamish Pirie
Produced by: Chloë Dear / Iron-Oxide
Director: Max Webster
Aerial Choreography: Jen Paterson
Ground Choreography: Jane Howie
Acrobatic Consultant: Moritz Linkmann
Set & Costume Design: Becky Minto
Lighting Design: Simon Wilkinson
Sound Design: Danny Krass
Aerial Rigging / Production Manager: Topher Dagg
Assistant Producer: Natasha Lee-Walsh
Graphic Design: The 16K Design Works
Photography: Alberto Santos Bellido & Ben Tan