Mrs Gwen Couper is having “delusions” about leaving her marital home. Her medical records show that she lost a baby only a few days after birth and now “she has become more difficult to live with”. For that, she’s incarcerated in Heathcote, a psychiatric hospital in Western Australia.
Gwen was Leah Shelton’s grandma, and the inspiration for Batshit, a one-woman show about “the pathologisation of women’s mental health”. Directed by Ursula Martinez, legend of provocative cross-genre shows, Batshit debuted in Australia in 2022.
