Psycho-siren Leah Shelton creates stylized, ridiculous feminist performance art soaked in cult references and dark humour.
She’s off her trolley. Nuttier than a fruitcake. A couple of kangaroos loose in the top paddock.
Women have long been locked up, pathologised and silenced by a simple label – crazy.
Batshit is a wildly theatrical and deeply intimate story of female madness. Created by psycho-siren Leah Shelton and directed by Olivier award-winning Ursula Martinez, this is a requiem for Leah’s grandmother Gwen, who was incarcerated for seeking independence in 1960s Australia.
Batshit draws on personal stories, pop psychology and Prozac-laden humour to explore the myths that keep us compliant and the systems that let us down