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Road Movie, an original play by US/UK theatre company Starving Artists, premiered in 1995 at the Edinburgh Festival where it won a Fringe First Award as well as the inaugural Stage Award. It has been seen all over the world, with performances in London, Toronto, Dublin, Miami and Los Angeles. Foreign language productions have been staged in Paris, Munich, Rome and Geneva. Now, 16 years on, Road Movie arrives in Australia.

Joel is a high-flying media executive from New York. One drunken night in San Francisco he is dragged out of the gutter and seduced by the angelic Scott. Road Movie charts Joel's journey westwards across the United States to be reunited with the man of his dreams. Along the way, he stumbles across a series of people grieving for lost loved ones – from an elderly couple paying homage to their son at a Vietnam Memorial to a Texan mother coming to terms with her daughter's suicide – before dealing with a tragedy of his own.

This one man play is a compelling and moving tale of love and loss, set in a mid-90's America at the height of the AIDS crisis. The piece combines Godfrey Hamilton's (Starving Artists) evocative writing with an astonishing central performance from Dirk Hoult to create a vivid theatrical experience.

Time Out London: 'Vivid, extraordinary, and very funny'

The Independent: 'A romantic, elegiac play about hard-bitten Joel's journey across the US to find his lover. Writing that ripples with sensuousness and sensitivity... a glorious experience.'

Financial Times: 'The show remains as powerful and poignant as it was on first viewing in Edinburgh…. Hamilton's is the most sensuous, sensitive gay writing I have yet encountered. … unabashedly gay theatre whose passionate humanity speaks alike to all.'

Where: Gasworks Arts Park
Date: 24-28 January
Time: Tue-Sat 7:30pm, Preview 24 Jan
Price: Full $30; Conc $25; Preview $18 +BF
Info: www.gasworks.org.au