PANIC PATTERNS
A Glasgay! Commission & World Premiere
BY ZOË STRACHAN & LOUISE WELSH Directed by Alison Peebles Citizens’ Theatre 19-30 October 2010 CAST Jacq Fay
SELINA BOYACK VERONICA LEER
Directed by ......................................... Alison Peebles Design ................................................... Colin O’Hara Sound Design ................................. Nichola Scrutton Lighting Design .............................. Grant Anderson Production Manager .............................. Alan Wright Production Assistant ......... Graeme Alexander Young Produced by ................................... Steven Thomson Ô
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Ornithologists Jacq and Fay are on a remote island in the far north of Scotland investigating sudden changes in bird migration patterns. Fay believes these changes signify forthcoming disaster. Jacq thinks the isolation is making her younger lover paranoid. But they were meant to leave the island five days ago, their boat home still hasn’t arrived and their radio has been dead for a week. Sometimes tender, sometimes disorientating, Panic Patterns draws on contemporary fears to create an edgy, suspenseful drama for a new decade. Ô
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BIOGRAPHIES LOUISE WELSH is the author of four novels, The Cutting Room, Tamburlaine Must Die, The Bullet Trick and Naming the Bones (Canongate Books). She has written many short stories and produced features for most of the major British broadsheets. Louise has also presented several radio programmes, most recently The Gorbals Vampire for BBC Radio 4 and Tibet on the Banks of the Clyde for BBC Radio 3. Her play, The Importance of Being Alfred is available from Nick Hern Books in
‘Scottish Shorts’. In 2009 Glasgay! commissioned Louise to write a new play, Memory Cells which appeared to critical acclaim at the Arches. A second production of Memory Cells was produced at the Pleasance as part of this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. Louise’s work has been translated in twenty languages and she has been the recipient of several awards and international fellowships. www.louisewelsh.com ZOË STRACHAN is the author of Negative Space and Spin Cycle (Picador). The former won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year Award. Zoë also writes short stories, essays, journalism and for radio. She has received various international fellowships including a Hawthornden Fellowship, Hermann Kesten Stipendium and Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. Her play Old Girls opened the 2009/10 season of A Play, a Pie and a Pint at Oran Mor in Glasgow, and her short opera Sublimation (with composer Nick Fells) toured in May 2010 with Scottish Opera and will be performed in South Africa by Cape Town Opera in November 2010. She lives in Glasgow where she teaches part time on the Creative Writing programme at the University of Glasgow and recently she completed her third novel, Ever Fallen in Love? www.zoestrachan.com
SELINA BOYACK (Jacq) Selina graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 1993. Recent work includes The City, Tron Theatre and An Argument About Sex, Tramway. She also worked with Anthony Neilson on Stiching and The Menu and on his film, The Debt Collector, and with Suspect Culture on 8000 Metres, A Different Language and The Escapologist and recently at Òran Mór on several new works. Selina has also worked with the Arches Theatre Co, Untitled Productions, and has been a writer this year on attchment with NTS.