Podcast appearances and mentions of leah shelton

In this episode Elaine chats with Australian performance artist and dancer Leah Shelton about her show Batshit. We chat the inspiration for the show, her grandmother's story and the narrative of the “Cray” woman. Batshit - Traverse Theatre Dates: 1st -25th August @ Various Times Get Tickets Here: https://www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/event/batshit-festival-24 BATSHIT 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. LEAH SHELTON Psycho-siren Leah Shelton creates stylized, guttural, renegade feminist work soaked in cult references and dark humour. Her work has taken her from the glamour of Las Vegas to the back streets of Kings Cross, from rigorous training in Japan to live art festivals in New York. As a solo artist, Leah has played on and off West End in London. She has graced the cabaret stages of La Clique, Club Briefs, Little Death Club, Vegas Nocturne and Jonny Woo's infamous UnRoyal Variety Show. Her first solo work, ‘Terror Australis', received numerous awards and toured Australia and France. Leah's second solo work, ‘Bitch On Heat', directed by UK Performance Art luminary Ursula Martinez, has toured to major festivals in Australia and Soho Theatre London to critical acclaim and standing ovations.With Lisa Fa'alafi, Leah is Co-Director of artist collective Polytoxic, creating hyper-visual works underpinned by diversity and collaboration. Polytoxic have presented work at PS122's COIL Festival NYC, Harbourfront Centre Canada, WanSmolbag Vanuatu, Sydney Opera House, Darwin Festival, Brisbane Festival, APAM, Bleach*, Enlighten, ArtsHouse Melbourne, Ten Days on the Island, Brisbane Powerhouse and QPAC.Originally dance-trained, Leah has a diverse performance background including over ten years training in the Suzuki Actor Training Method with Frank Theatre (Brisbane, AU), Suzuki Company of Toga (Toga / Shizuoka, Japan) and SITI Company (New York, USA). https://www.leahshelton.live/batshit HIPA GUIDES: HIPA GUIDES OUR WEBSITE - www.persistentandnasty.co.uk Persistent Pal & Nasty Hero - Pals and Hero Membership Email – persistentandnasty@gmail.com Instagram - @persistentandnasty Twitter - @PersistentNasty Coffee Morning Eventbrite - Coffee Morning Tickets LINKTREE - LINKTR.EE Resources Samaritans - Rape Crisis Scotland - Rape Crisis UK ArtsMinds - BAPAM Freelancers Make Theatre Work Stonewall UK - Trevor Project - Mermaids UK Switchboard LGBT+ - GATE PLANNED PARENTHOOD DONATE - DONATE ABORTION SUPPORT NETWORK UK - ASN.COM- DONATE

Suzuki Teacher Emma Louise Pursey has over 25 years experience in the Suzuki Method of Actor Training and has adapted it into her Integrated Actor Training approach to encourage more natural alignments of the body, focusing on safe technique and longevity of practice. She trained for ten years with Frank Theatre under John Nobbs and Jacqui Carroll as well as masterclasses with Okubo Noriaki (Suzuki Company of Toga), Ichiro Nakayama (SCOT) and Ellen Lauren (SITI). ​Emma is a core faculty member at 16th Street Actors Studio and also teaches at The National Theatre. ​She has been an industry guest at Howard Fine Acting Studio Australia, Film & Television Studio International, and NICA. Access this Podcast episode's transcript pdf HERE. Read this article about Emma Louise Pursey's career. Mentions: Oz Frank, Salome - 1997 , Jacqui Carroll, John Nobbs Suzuki Tadashi - Suzuki Company of Toga Brides of Frank: Caroline Dunphy, Lisa O'Neill, Leah Shelton & Neridah Waters. 16th Street Actors Studio: Kim Krejus, Ian Rickson, Iain Sinclair Jackie Ryan - We'll Show the World Expo '88 The National Theatre: Dr Jo Loth One Star Lounge and Gallery Heide Museum of Modern Art: Joy Hester, Barbara Blackman

Our review of Batshit by Leah Shelton

Leo speaks to performer Leah Shelton about her show Bitch on Heat. For more information about her show, running from Thu 5 – Sat 14 Dec 2019 10.15pm, visit https://sohotheatre.com/shows/btch-on-heat/.Audio was done by Leonore Schick. Soila Apparicio is the series producer.Follow us on Twitter @VLWRadio, Instagram VLWRadio and on Facebook.com/VeryLooseWomen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Acclaimed Israeli-born, UK-based choreographer Hofesh Shechter brings his Grand Finale to the Melbourne Festival, we travel to the Brisbane Festival to experience three Australian works that question the ways in which we connect: From Darkness, Bitch on Heat and Communal Table, award-winning English actor Maxine Peake shares the Best Advice she was ever given, and Chicago returns to the Australian stage, bringing glitz, glamour, guile and all that jazz.

Acclaimed Israeli-born, UK-based choreographer Hofesh Shechter brings his Grand Finale to the Melbourne Festival, we travel to the Brisbane Festival to experience three Australian works that question the ways in which we connect: From Darkness, Bitch on Heat and Communal Table, award-winning English actor Maxine Peake shares the Best Advice she was ever given, and Chicago returns to the Australian stage, bringing glitz, glamour, guile and all that jazz.

Marcie and Lily interview Diane Toulson and Leah Shelton for Bitch on Heat, where absurdist lip-synch meets high-camp performance art. Leah and Diane talk about the pop-fuelled critique of sexual politics in the age of implied consent that Bitch on Heat provides, and the Pandora’s box of ancient myths and pop-culture within the show.  Performing at Theatre Works May 8th-19th. For more information and tickets, check out http://www.theatreworks.org.au/program/bitch-on-heat/?mc_cid=f622c33e82&mc_eid=1954d323cc  Leah has a website https://www.leahshelton.live/    She also has a facebook, instagram, and twitter.  Diane has a twitter Originally aired on May 5th. Produced and edited by Marcie Di Bartolomeo. Image courtesy of Theatre Works.

- Nicky Haydn from the spectacular festival-within a festival venue The Warren - Travis Alabanza’s Brighton Festival debut - “Before I step outside (you love me)”. - Adam at the Theatre Royal, telling the true story of a young Transgender man making his way seeking asylum from Egypt to Scotland - And the divine Leah Shelton and Scotty the Blue Bunny from the multiple-award winning La Clique

There’s another cornucopia of Brighton Festival and Fringe delights ahead for you this week:- - Award winning live-art cabaret show Terror Australis brings the grimey grungey underbelly of Australian culture to The Warren - creator Leah Shelton will be here to discuss - Paul Diello brings his gender-blending celebration of iconic women in music to Bar Broadway - Challenging homophobia and transphobia within Caribbean communities, Rachael Young brings OUT to the Marlborough Theatre - And as we approach the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia on the 17th May, we look at Brighton's plans to mark the day