A young boy sits in his local cinema, watching the final scenes of the Steinbeck classic The Grapes of Wrath. He cries - real tears, tough tears. It is a defining moment in his life, the moment when he vows that Hollywood is where he has to be.

He has not reached this realisation alone, but has been spurred on by swash buckling tales told by Jazz Hegarty, elderly torchman at the Cookstown picture house, who used to be a stunt double for Henry Fonda, Gary Cooper, John Wayne et al.

An alcohol-fuelled fall from grace unexpectedly results in the creation of an award-winning play, Off My Face, at the Toronto performance of which an unlikely convert offers him the opportunity to take it on to the stage in LA. Following his heart and his new friend Jerry, O'Neill and Off My Face go west. An hour and a quarter into this piece of hilarious, demented storytelling, we discover that he did it all wrong. For, as Jazz told him so many times, LA is the world's movie capital.

He makes his peace with Jazz and Jerry, places his precious play in the maverick hands of the movie moguls, and - guess what? - they love it as much as audiences will love this crazy one-man show, which returns to tour Ireland in May and should be on prescription.

Plays at The Garage, Monaghan, next Thursday; Burnavon Centre, Cookstown, next Friday; An Grianan, Letterkenny, next Saturday; and will be back in Belfast on May 12th (Waterfront Hall).