By DENNIS AMOR

THE curtain has risen on yet another stage play featuring those ageing Australians who turn their backs on dreary suburbia for a life on the open road.

Sandy Gore: heading for 33 venues

In the latest production, actors Sandy Gore and Terence Donovan take on the role of grey nomads in David Williamson's Travelling North, which opened in Brisbane last month.

The play's producers say it's about a last-chance romance when two single retirees sell their family homes in Melbourne to escape for a new life together in the Sunshine State of Queensland.

The classic Australian comedy sees Frank and Frances find new life in a twilight romance, much to the dismay of their respective adult offsprings. Their dream takes them north to the tropics, but no sooner do they find their utopia than the realities of their new life begin to dawn.

Director Bruce Myles observed: "When it comes down to it, Travelling North is a love story. It is beautifully written and has at its centre two wonderfully drawn characters dealing with the complexities of lives well lived.

Terence Donovan: northbound

"I think audiences will love it. I imagine many will find it strikingly familiar, having made their own sea change to the Sunshine State."

But the stage production will not only be travelling north ... it's also heading south, east and west to give real life grey nomads ample opportunity to catch a performance.

Its scheduled 14-week tour will take in 33 cities across the nation.

And Ms Gore, star of television's Prisoner and A Country Practice, is delighted. "It's a wonderful way to see the country ... there are so many places I haven't been to before," she said .

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