DARWIN’S REPTILIA
Developed at the IRT Theatre in NYC, 2022.
Produced at Belvoir, 25A, November 2023.
“Falkner’s characters are sharply defined and diverse. His honed dialogue is delivered with flair...”
- Jason Blake
“An edge-of-your-seat thriller that fills an appetite for biting theatre.”
- Sydney Theatre Reviews
”Dialogue is endlessly amusing, with intricately imagined characters who endear, charm and fascinate.”
- Suzy Goes See
Written by Charlie Falkner
Directed by Samantha Young
Photography by Oliver Rose
Designed by Ruth Arnold
Lighting Design and C-Produced by Saint Clare
Original Cast: Ainslie McGlynn, Danny Ball, Mathew Lee, Leilani Loau, Zoe Jensen.
In the pool area of a run-down motel, Darwin Australia, a motley crew of five characters contemplate the bizarre circumstances that led them there. It’s the height of summer and the small city has been overrun by a once-in-a-lifetime crocodile infestation, leaving the group confined to the dull and tedious setting of The Palms Motel.
Cooped up with no direction, Ren, Flick, John and Declan become more impulsive and agitated as the days drag on, increasingly resembling the reptilian threat that surrounds them. As an impending sense of doom approaches, each character must attempt to find direction out of aimless chaos.
On the back of a staged reading at New York City’s IRT theatre, Darwin’s Reptilia is an exploration of human instinct and impulse in an increasingly chaotic world.
