THE Glasgow-based Singaporean theatre-maker Ramesh Meyyappan is one of Scotland’s most original and exciting dramatists and performers. The visual theatre artist behind such beautiful works as Butterfly (2014) and Ali The Magic Elf (2019), Meyyappan says of his method: “Being deaf, I have communicated visually all my life...
“[B]ut as a theatre-maker, the challenges have been to find a more shared visual language.” He seeks, he explains, to make shows, “that transcend words, speaking to everyone, wherever they live and whoever they are”.
That mission is shared by Paris-based company IVT (International Visual Theatre), with whom Glasgow’s Tron Theatre has collaborated in creating this world premiere of La Performance. A charming, very funny and highly distinctive piece of metatheatre, it sees Meyyappan and his French counterpart Emmanuelle Laborit (co-director of IVT) take on the roles of Him and Her, performers in a visual theatre show that evokes a 19th-century French fairground.
