Reviewer rating:  Rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars  By Troy Nankervis
Gasworks Arts Park until February 1  WRITTEN by Troy Nankervis,
Transit is drawn from the young playwright's travels in Europe
last year. The script is condensed from six hours of interviews
with a dozen fellow globetrotters, with fragments of the
original recordings played intermittently.  Despite this
distillation, dialogue often sounds verbatim, though not in an
expressive or stylistic way. A narcissistic 19-year-old musing
about their transformative overseas jaunt needs some reworking
to become an engaging monologue.  Set in a London hostel, three
Australian undergraduates meet in a dormitory and begin sharing
backpacker stories. These are sheltered characters, at least one
of whose parents are funding their metamorphosis, who believe a
plane is like a cocoon from which they'll emerge a more
authentic self, aware and assured.  Cliched escapades and
platitudes are relayed like revelations, yet their journeys are
as cosy as their lives back hom