It's a Wonderful Mid-Life Crisis: The Gay Disruptor

Mark Nicholls

Apr 2019 · Prahran Publishing

About this ebook

 Max and Marion are usually the sort of friends who can go for a year without seeing each other and catch up on everything in a second once they do. In these four strange and amusing encounters, however, something new seems to be happening.  Max finds himself increasingly flummoxed by his interesting friend, as Marion plays about with various scenarios in which she sidesteps work, suspends the kids and liberates her life partner while making a direct and long overdue approach towards more time meditating under the Me Tree.

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. 

He is the author of Lost Objects of Desire: The Performances of Jeremy Irons (2012), Scorsese’s Men: Melancholia and the Mob (2004) and recently published articles on Italian Cinema, Powell and Pressburger’s The Red Shoes and Sergei Diaghilev’s celebrated company, The Ballets Russes.

Mark is a film critic and worked for many years on ABC Radio and for The Age newspaper, for which he wrote a weekly column between 2007 and 2009.