Absolutely Reliable!

Inspired by Beckett's Worstward Ho and Gogol's Diary of a Madman, this solo-mask and movement performance is a unique blend of heart and politics. George is a white, middle aged, middle class, middle manager. He desperately craves female attention and touch. As he falls in love with the sensuous Josephine and gets closer to his dream, his inner demons take over and throw him into a maelstrom of desire, fear, lust, denial, love, death and rebirth.

Director and co-writer Lee Delong has transformed George’s anxieties and traumas into a raw investigation of contemporary norms of intimacy using dark comedy. Co-author Ralf Wetzel wears a mask that fits him like a glove. It has a transfixing power and sometimes one forgets that it’s a mask, so much so that Wetzel plays two distinct characters - male and female – with the same mask. Negotiating a labyrinth of increasingly comic situations, George is peeled…