[ROAD MOVIE] - The Australian Premiere Road Movie, marks Dirk Hoult's solo performance debut in a compelling and moving tale of love, loss and letting go, set in a mid-90_x0019_ s America at the height of the AIDS crisis. The piece combines Godfrey Hamilton_x0019_ s evocative and lyrical writing with an astonishing central performance from Dirk Hoult to create a vivid theatrical experience. ...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 an angel, Scott. Road Movie charts Joel_x0019_ 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 _x0013_ from an elderly couple paying homage to their son at a Vietnam Memorial to a Texan mother coming to terms with her daughter_x0019_ s suicide _x0013_ before dealing with a tragedy of his own... Road Movie, an original play by LA 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's one of the seminal _x0018_ gay/AIDS plays_x0019_ of the 1990_x0019_ s sitting alongside other classics such as The Laramie Project, The Normal Heart and Angels in America. 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. PREVIOUS PUBLICITY QUOTES ON THE WRITING "Vivid, extraordinary, and very funny" Time Out London "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." The Independent _x001C_ 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._x001D_ Financial Times
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