The Weekly Times

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

A Laugh At The World's Vanities

Seeing The Funny Side: Trentham Playwright Darren Brealey

Written by: Genevieve Barlow

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Darren Brealey got an early start on the stage - he was six when he first played a teddy bear.

But it was through Scouts that he got his real start - at the age of 10 - at St Kilda's Palais Theatre in The Gang Show, a Scouts-run voluntary theatrical movement.

Today the 37-year-old playwright and actor lives in Trentham, about 20km from Kyneton, where as a child he roamed his grandparents' farm and spent "delicious" hours with his mother and four aunts Jessica, Margaret, Kathy and Helen. ...more