Cirrus@Austlit

'Meet Len. He works in middle level bureaucracy - Consumer Complaints Division. His special talent is answering phones. But when Len's old mate Dale barges back into his life, our hero is taken waaaaay out of his comfort zone. Len and Dale share a past, one that briefly features a stint with South American revolutionaries. After the pair is separated in a terrorist attack gone wrong, they return to Australia to make new lives for themselves, alone.

When Dale bursts back into Len's life, some twenty years later and minus a leg, the pair embarks on a madcap, unwieldy train trip around Queensland, where the past and the present collide. With the help of a host of storytelling Queenslanders they meet along the way, including a nun, a miner and a slightly sinister Mr. Whippy, will Len and Dale find the shining path back to friendship?

"The Shining Path" follows two map-less blokes on a buoyant, somewhat random train journey around Queensland. Quirky, sometimes sad, and often hilarious, the play visits the iconic, familiar, as well as the out of the way places that are unique to this great state. With universal themes of friendship, betrayal and redemption, the play celebrates all that is broken, beautiful and bizarre about Queensland towns and the characters that populate them.' Source: www.jute.com.au/ (Sighted 22/09/2009).