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Gin & Tonic and Passing Trains

Voted as one of the critic’s Picks of the Year 2007 - The Flying Inkpot (Singapore)

Reviews

“Meyyappan produces the best kind of confidence trick - has you seeing things that aren't there!”
The Glasgow Herald 2007

"…by now you will have realised that he (Ramesh) speaks, eloquently, with every inch of his being."
The Herald (Glasgow)

"Sublime storytelling, pure and simple Meyyappan out Dickenses Dickens… Cheeky, magical, sickening"

(****) The Flying Inkpot, Singapore.

Created in Co-production with Ramesh Meyyappan

Mark once again team up with the fantastic Ramesh Meyyappan to develop a new show, based loosely on Charles Dickens's The Signalman.

'G&T' is a highly visual, darkly comic tale of one man with too much time on his hands and the dilemma of how to fill it.

With nothing for company but his thoughts and the sound of trains rushing by, Mr Jones feels a little trapped in his damp, rickety signal box. In fact, the loneliness, the responsibility and the endless ringing of bells are driving him to distraction and to start to view life through the bottom of a bottle…

What starts as a tipple at four turns into a torrent at eight and by ten there is more than one spirit in front of his eyes!

The performance premiered in at the Tramway Theatre Glasgow in May 2007 before being developed for audiences in Singapore. 

G&T subsequently toured the UK in 2008 and Sweden in 2009

Developed & Devised: Ramesh Meyyappan & Mark Smith
Directed by Mark Smith 
Lighting Design: Justin Breman
Music: Paul Skinner

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