Darrel is a simply simple middle-aged man who lives with his mother. When she dies in her sleep, Darrel does not realise she is gone, and so, for ten days, he lives alone. Tandem to Darrel’s day to day routine are the adventures of his favorite children’s book characters, Honeydog and Little Burp. Their search for a home leads the dog and duck duo to an understanding of family, while Darrel’s ease in the world illustrates just how his mother has paved the path for him to be without her. Episodes from the past, like faded colour snapshots from a family album, illustrate this mother’s love for her son in all its honesty and fierce, unwavering will. Simple, tender, funny and unapologetic, 10 Days On Earth asks: If you were alone, but didn’t know it, would you feel lonely?
10 Days on Earth is a co-production with BITE (London, UK); CanStage (Toronto, Canada); queerupnorth (Manchester, UK); and Wiener Festwochen (Vienna, Austria).
