About UsPlaywright Darren Brealey is the author of several plays, short film scripts, monologues and short stories. His book, Performing The Goat, A Collection Of One-Act Plays, was published in June 2006. Brealey has completed his next full-length work ready for the stage entitled, Shattered Reflection. A story of a strong-headed and educated woman with a Masters Degree in Arts Science and Degrees in Business Management. Her role as the Divisional Manager of the Asia Pacific region for an international manufacturing company for truck engines and farming equipment dissatisfies her career goals. She finds the people she works with boorish and common. Without a tendency to commit to relationships and feel for true love, her only outlet for sex is rent boys on a Friday night. She suffers from a mental illness and personality disorder and this is exacerbated by her addition to a cocktail of illicit drugs and alcohol. Brealey first came to public attention in 1996 when his play, The Meeting Place was produced during the Melbourne Fringe Festival. In 1998, Brealey’s next full-length work, Three Shorts was produced at Melbourne’s Workhouse Theatre. Performing The Goat followed in 1999 containing three one-act plays, as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. In the 2005 Melbourne Fringe Festival he co-wrote with friend, Stuart Pursell and produced Comfort Zone. Most recent is his play, Penniless Penny a one-act play was produced by Walking Into Bars as part of the 2008 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Also, 2008 sees Brealey’s one-act plays, Disturbing Mavis and The Mechanics being produced in Singapore as part of the Short and Sweet Singapore 2008 Festival. Brealey learnt drama from the age of six with Arena Theatre and first appeared on stage at the Palais Theatre in St. Kilda, when he was ten, in the 1980 Gang Show. In addition to his training in theatre, he studied writing at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. (AFTRS). In August 2004, Brealey attended the Robert McKee, ‘Story Seminar’, claimed to be the world’s ultimate writing course taught by Hollywood’s master of the craft... more  Darren Brealey is an emerging Australian Playwright of literature, stage, screen and television. On this site, you have access to his one act and full length plays, film scripts, critiques and editorials, what's on and what's next. Discover his book, Performing The Goat - A Collection Of One-Act Plays. |