Cruise
by Jack Holden
Presented by Fruit Box Theatre
in association with bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company
12 - 22 February, 2025
KXT on Broadway (Sydney, Australia)
“Let’s make sure we’re travelling so fast that the heat we generate when we reenter the sky will burn us up and paint the night with light.”
Backlit by the clubs of London’s Soho, Michael Spencer faces the music of his last night on Earth. Diagnosed with HIV in 1984, he's told by doctors that he has just four years to live. Determined, he decides his doomsday will be his biggest party yet. Sweat mixes with tears, and final dances turn into farewells. There’s a midnight countdown to his death but Michael … survives. With the gift of life, how can he go on living?
Nominated for the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2022 and now receiving its Australian premiere with community-led Fruit Box Theatre, Cruise is an intergenerational monologue spanning four decades and over 20 characters, celebrating queer nightlife and paying tribute to a generation lost to the AIDS crisis.
★★★★★
"Together, Morrison and Fruit Box Theatre’s Artistic Director Sean Landis staged a five star production that stood as an ode to the Queer Community’s insatiable appetite for empowering dance, sexual liberation, and above all, love.”
— Justin Clarke, Theatre Thoughts
BTS Rehearsal Video
Featuring Sean Landis (Director), Fraser Morrison (Performer), Jeremy Lloyd (Movement Director) and Chelsea Wheatley (Production / Sound Designer).
Cinematographer / Editor Anna McGirr
Sizzle Reel
Featuring Fraser Morrison
Cinematographer / Editor Anna McGirr
Promotional Trailer
Cinematographer / Editor Anna McGirr
Art Director Sean Landis
Featuring Fraser Morrison
Stylists Chelsea Wheatley and Lucy Doherty
Lighting Anna McGirr and Abraham de Souza
Assistants Hana Truban, Louis Walker and Lucy Parakhina
Location ARQ Sydney
Creative Team
Director Sean Landis
Producer Hana Truban
Movement Director Jeremy Lloyd
Production / Sound Designer Chelsea Wheatley
Lighting Designer Tom Hicks
Accent / Dialect Coach Linda Nicholls-Gidley
Stage Manager Caity Cowan
Assistant Producer Louis Walker
Assistant Production Designer Lucy Doherty
Assistant Stage Manager Alice Chao
Cinematographer Anna McGirr
Photographer Abraham de Souza
Community Consultants Jonny Seymour, Wilfred Roach and Helen Fraser
With Fraser Morrison