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'Set in rural Australia, True Love Travels on a Gravel Road is a new Australian comedy-drama about ordinary people going to extraordinary lengths in pursuit of a dream.
'All of his life Jake has been patronised and pegged as the town “tard” but when he falls in love with Maggie anything seems possible. Making Maggie’s dream of going to Graceland becomes his quest, and a chance to escape the small country town that has labeled him a loser. All that stands in Jake’s way are the town’s locals, including Maggie’s husband, her straight-talking mother, local hard man and philospher Richard, plus Jake’s boss and his wife.'
Source: 15 Minutes from Anywhere.
'... on choice and broken dreams, set in a photocopy centre in a regional town ... a bungled heist story ... that is finally very moving and human.'
Source: The R.E. Ross Trust Playwrights' Script Development Awards 2011 Judges' Report, State Library of Victoria website, www.slv.vic.gov.au (sighted 13/07/2011)
Production Details
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Recipient of a 2011 R.E. Ross Trust Playwrights’ Script Development Award.
First produced by 15 Minutes from Anywhere at fortyfivedownstairs, 15 May - 2 June 2013.
Director: Beng Oh.
Set and costume designer: Christina Logan-Bell.
Lighting designer: Andy Turner.
Sound designer: Tim Bright.
Cast: Chris Broadstock (Sam), Emily Goddard (Maggie), Elizabeth McColl (Glenda), Marnie Gibson (Angie), Glenn van Oosterom (Jake), and David Kambouris (Richard).
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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The Road Less Travelled
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 11 May 2013; (p. 19) -
Dark Comedy Sheds Light on Another Turning in Road of Love
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 18 May 2013; (p. 20)
— Review of True Love Travels on a Gravel Road 2011 single work drama
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Dark Comedy Sheds Light on Another Turning in Road of Love
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 18 May 2013; (p. 20)
— Review of True Love Travels on a Gravel Road 2011 single work drama -
The Road Less Travelled
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 11 May 2013; (p. 19)