Anxiety in the Arts…

Recently, I interviewed Ben Steel about his documentary The Show Must Go On. An actor who has struggled with severe depression, Ben decided to interview people across the entertainment industry to find out how widespread and serious the problem is. You can find the story on our website. 

The Show Must Go On screened on ABC-TV last month during Mental Health Week and is available via ABC iview. It’s a raw, moving and salutary documentary which made it clear that although the industry is increasingly aware of the problem and is putting measures in place to try to address it, there’s still a long way to go.

Interviewing performers Sam Neill, Michala Banas and Dean Ray, ballerina Benedicte Bemet, and screenwriter/film director Jocelyn Moorhouse, among many others, Ben put faces to the statistics  –...