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The Seagull Has Landed

Blackpool’s North Pier is a magnet. It draws locals, regular tourists and first-time visitors alike. And seagulls. So it’s no surprise to find three disparate people from very different backgrounds contemplating their lives on the pier one sunny afternoon. It is a bit weirder to find a seagull as their therapist. As a Southerner, a Northerner and a Sandgrown’un trade ideas, experiences and the occasional bit of Aristotelian narrative theory, their colliding views are brought into sharp focus by the seagull, who brings a literal bird’s eye perspective to their entrenched opinions. But can a surreal, absurdist intervention really change the power dynamics in a world that’s already difficult to navigate? Is it possible to learn empathy from a bird? And will the seagull survive the whole performance without pooping?

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