Amy Mason is returning to Forest Arts Centre, New Milton with a new show, Hollering Woman Creek, on Wednesday March 28.

In 2015, newly pregnant Amy Mason travelled around the larger-than-life American state of Texas to research the death penalty for her new novel, having just been advised by a GP to stop taking her psychiatric medications.

Hollering Woman Creek is about what happened next.

Soundtracked by original country music from the multi award-winning Jackie Oates and Megan Henwood, Hollering Woman Creek follows Amy as her mental health goes haywire in one of the biggest and most baffling US States.

A local girl, Amy grew up in Poole and describes herself as a theatre maker, novelist and comedian.

She subsequently completed an MPhil in writing at the University of South Wales and her debut novel, The Other Ida, won the 2014 Dundee International Book Prize

She has written and performed two shows produced by Bristol Old Vic, Mass and The Islanders – a collaboration with award-winning folk singer-songwriter, Jim Moray, and Eddie Argos which won the Ideas Tap/Underbelly Edinburgh Award before being published as a graphic novel by Nasty Little Press.

Amy – who is the granddaughter of the late actor, Lionel Jeffries, who played Grandpa Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – is also a finalist in the 2018 Funny Women Awards, and a semi-finalist in the Laughing Horse New Act of the Year.

During Hollering Woman Creek, Amy recounts stories from the strange and brash Texas, along with her experiences of that turbulent time in her life.

The stories are deeply personal and the soundtrack helps to create an alluring atmosphere for Mason’s personal account of, what she describes as, a “macabre road trip”.

Her charm, honesty and vulnerability all disarm the taboo that surrounds pre-natal depression.

Hollering Woman Creek is a 'pay what you decide’ performance, offering the audience the opportunity to experience to pay after the show, choosing the amount that feels appropriate.