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Answered by: Bryony Kimmings

Describe your show in a tweet? Awesome performance artist @bryonykimmings has made a show about depression, love and being a man with her real world non-art boyf! SEE IT!

What inspired the work? I make work about the stigmas that still surround us. Previous work has seen me retracing an STI, getting drunk with scientists and being a pop star. This show is about my real world partner’s depression. Because we don’t talk about this subject enough and it affects many of us!

Where did you write most of the piece? I wrote it in the UK. I make a lot of my work based on clinical research and interviews so I buzz about all over the place, but when it came to the actual sitting down and writing... in a shed at the bottom of my garden in Oxfordshire!

What excites you about Australian theatre? I haven’t been to Australia for more than three weeks and that was only last year at a Live Art festival in Melbourne. I also did the Comedy Festival there and loved everything I saw. We get loads of Aussie comedy in the UK but not much theatre. So what I am excited about is actually getting to see some!

When and where is your show? To 7 Feb, Fringe World, PICA Performance Space, Perth Cultural Centre