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This Side Up

This Side Up is about one mans battle between the urban sprawl of the city and his need to go back to his roots. He has a practical eye for spotting natural beauty and an unquenchable thirst to come a little closer to the world. Unfortunately when he attempts to go back to nature he neither has the skills or the knowledge to make it happen. The result of which brings amusement to those who live around him. The city is the only thing he knows but as the season pass his heart grows (although his plants don't) for the simple life.

This Side Up creates a world of strong characters, a distinctive style and madcap humour set in a wonderfully visual narrative world.

Director: Mark Smith
Original Sound Design: Paul Skinner
Original Lighting Design: Sarah Kamender
Devised by: Mark Smith and Ramesh Meyyappan

"Meyyappan plays both man and dog in a remarkably ingenious sequence... Meyyappan is a tremendous performer. Above all, it is very funny, Meyyappan's humorous expressions a constant delight." - Daily Post February 2005, UK

"What made the show thoroughly enjoyable was Meyyappan's spot-on timing and wide array of physical gestures which conveyed so much with so little" - Life! Straits Times October 2005, Singapore

"Ramesh animated it with his exuberance, controlled it with his perfect timing, and made it impossibly funny." - The Flying Inkpot October 2005, Singapore

Was nominated for a Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards (2006) for Best Actor in 'This Side Up'.

Toured: Liverpool London Manchester Auckland Vienna Reims Singapore Baltimore Maryland Melbourne Akureyri Reykjavik Krakow Warsaw Szczecin Elblag Zurich