Darren Brealey's Reel

The Arts Minister's coming and the media's on their way, but still there's not enough balloons for the launch of next year's theatre season! In the upstairs office of a small inner city theatre an ugly battle for ultimate power is in full swing. The Artistic Director, the Yes-man, the writer and God forbid, even the cleaning lady are slamming doors and opening windows in this fast paced, action-packed tour de farce that takes a knife to this incestuous theatre industry. Comfort Zone tells the...

Performed in the Short and Sweet Singapore 2008 Festival, Disturbing Mavis won the People's Choice Award in the Week 1 Top 30 section. Set in a nursing home, this is a practical look at the subject of growing old and the not-so-attractive consequences. Mavis is a lonely soul who finds solidarity in comforting her husband, Alfred. She fills the boredom of her days by reading and engaging in one-sided arguments with an inert Alfred. When the ambulance officers arrive to take Alfred away, we discover the reason for Alfreds inertia and witness Maviss frustration and helplessness.

In the days when older women took on the role of turning a young girl into a lady, these lunatic women find any excuse for a party. Titiana can't find an unlocked door as she attempts her escape when she wakes up. Falling asleep from Narcolepsy, not remembering where she is or why she is there is something she has difficult with. Day three of Lord Florien Thrust's house party, thrown in honour of Fergus, his valium medicated dog, Gertrude attempts to save Titiana from herself, and lure...