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 hurls an asylum seeker 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 who has chosen Helena as her mentor and sets about procuring her idol with disturbing intensity.