Where Seagulls Go to be Lonely

Helena, grand dame of the Melbourne and Sydney theatre scene, thinks she has settled nicely into a restful performance regime of comedy classics in judiciously subsidised spaces. When her somewhat intense undergraduate daughter, Emmeline, hurls an asylum seeker/detention centre drama at her, Helena's professional certainties are shaken not so much by the play's contents as by its lead actor, Violet. A student of Australian theatre, Violet has chosen Helena to be her mentor and she sets about procuring her idol with disturbing intensity. Besieged and exhausted by the emotional demands of these two passionate young women, Helena finds herself facing a choice between biting on the burnt chop of desire and doing something really reprehensible.

About the author

MARK NICHOLLS has been performing on various Melbourne stages since the age of six and has an extensive list of credits as a playwright, composer, singer, actor, producer and director. He is Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies at the University of Melbourne where he has taught film since 1993.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Nicholls
• Publisher: Prahran Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781922263100
• ISBN: 978-1-922263-10-0
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 96 g
• Series: Unconventional Women
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet