Batshit
BATSHIT is a wildly theatrical, unexpectedly funny, and deeply intimate story of female madness.
About Batshit
‘She’s off her trolley. Nuttier than a fruitcake. A couple of kangaroos loose in the top paddock’.
Women have long been locked up, medicated, pathologized and silenced by a simple label - ‘crazy’.
BATSHIT is a wildly theatrical, unexpectedly funny, and deeply intimate story of female madness. Created by psycho-siren Leah Shelton (AU) and directed by Olivier award-winning performance artist Ursula Martinez (UK), 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, fantasies and fears that keep us compliant, and the systems that let us down. Dedicated to all the women labelled hysterical, psycho, hormonal and deluded by a society that seeks to control and discredit their experiences.
BATSHIT is part of the Traverse's £1 Ticket Project.
Image: Joel Devereux
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