Westward Ho! by Stephen Orr

Westward Ho! is a play for voices written by Stephen Orr, produced by Joanne Hartstone and directed by Guy Masterton (Centre for International Theatre). It premiered at the 2012 Adelaide Fringe at Higher Ground, with a cast of international actors.
Westward Ho! is part drama, part vaudeville, part Orpheus in the Underworld. The play begins with a fifty-something ex-greyhound trainer, George Lake, recovering in hospital from an unnamed condition. A twelve-year-old boy, Carl Levin, arrives and tells George to get dressed, as a ‘man’ has asked to see him. After some argument, George agrees to go. The pair follow a map the man has given the boy. They walk, dance and sing their way through Adelaide, passing the homes, workplaces, pubs and alleyways George has spent his life around. Only at the end of the pair’s journey do we find out who the ‘man’ is, what he wants from George, and why the boy was sent to fetch him.