Reviews
Spike Theatre: Top Of The World
"Along with the imaginative recreation of everything from base camp to the treacherous Khumbu Icefall to the summit, there are some interesting sound effects which recreate the cracking of ice and whipping of wind around their precariously-pitched tents."
Feb 27 2010 by Catherine Jones, Liverpool Echo. Full review
"Much of the 75-minute production is very funny. The nature of the comedy varies from a scene reminiscent of the Three Stooges to an erratic musical number involving beanbags and spoons".
Liverpool Daily Post Feb 28 2010 By Jo Kelly Read More
"Along with the imaginative recreation of everything from base camp to the treacherous Khumbu Icefall to the summit, there are some interesting sound effects which recreate the cracking of ice and whipping of wind around their precariously-pitched tents."
Feb 27 2010 by Catherine Jones, Liverpool Echo. Full review
"Much of the 75-minute production is very funny. The nature of the comedy varies from a scene reminiscent of the Three Stooges to an erratic musical number involving beanbags and spoons".
Liverpool Daily Post Feb 28 2010 By Jo Kelly Read More
Momento Mori
"Paul Skinner’s original soundtrack ably interwove diverse musical styles - from soaring operatic vocals to hip hop beats."
Adam Ford | Unity Theatre | 03-02-06
"The diversity of the soundscore made you feel as if there were a talented DJ at the helm; almost like listening to a john peel session you didn’t know hat was coming next, Royksopp to opera – beautiful in its own right."
Nico Thoemmes | Bristol Dance Paper | 09-11-05
"Based on the Orpheus legend, what one gets is an abstract, relationship-based story where the two dancers keep changing style and attitude to huge effect. That's partly thanks to a tremendous music track created by Paul Skinner and others based on unusual rhythms, quirky sounds, drums and even at one point, bagpipe music."
Philip Key | The Daily Post | 04-11-05
Full reviews
Gin & Tonic & Passing Trains
"In some ways, Ramesh Meyyappan's mime productions are a reminder of how little is required to create compelling theatre: a performer, a space, an hour. But they are also a reminder of how much is needed: an acute sense of character, story and pacing; charisma; passion; majestic talent."
The Ink Spot Full Review
This Side Up
"Above all, it is very funny, Meyyappan's humorous expressions a constant delight with all the many scenes in the show amusingly recalled in a quick-fire reprise re·prise at his curtain call. A fine musical score from Paul Skinner, excellent lighting effects from Sarah Kamender and lively direction by Mark Smith all help enormously."
Phil Key 2005 Full Review
"Above all, it is very funny, Meyyappan's humorous expressions a constant delight with all the many scenes in the show amusingly recalled in a quick-fire reprise re·prise at his curtain call. A fine musical score from Paul Skinner, excellent lighting effects from Sarah Kamender and lively direction by Mark Smith all help enormously."
Phil Key 2005 Full Review
Dracula: Ullaloom Theatre (LX Design)
The writers are to be commended for the skill of combining an analytical rendering of the sexual and societal desires that influenced Bram Stoker’s late Victorian morality. An expressionistic set (a la Cabinet of Dr Calagari) supported the action very well and was cleverly designed for economy of movement between scenes. A lot of attention had been given to lighting with evocative use of light and darkness necessary for such a tale. Similarly the sound - heavy metal soundtrack in part - use of ticking clocks etc, was well thought out. Overall such economies were put to good use in pinpointing and focusing our minds on particular emotional states of characters.
Unity Theatre, Liverpool, 3rd-5th March, 2005 Reviewed by Julian Bond Full Review
The writers are to be commended for the skill of combining an analytical rendering of the sexual and societal desires that influenced Bram Stoker’s late Victorian morality. An expressionistic set (a la Cabinet of Dr Calagari) supported the action very well and was cleverly designed for economy of movement between scenes. A lot of attention had been given to lighting with evocative use of light and darkness necessary for such a tale. Similarly the sound - heavy metal soundtrack in part - use of ticking clocks etc, was well thought out. Overall such economies were put to good use in pinpointing and focusing our minds on particular emotional states of characters.
Unity Theatre, Liverpool, 3rd-5th March, 2005 Reviewed by Julian Bond Full Review