A THREAD ENTERTAINMENT Production in association with RED LINE PRODUCTIONS
CAST - Australia.
JO | Amy Ingram
MARY | Kate Skinner
CELIA | Geraldine Hakewill
With Caleb Alloway, Joshua McElroy, Luke Carson, Patrick Cullen, Scott Eveleigh, David Lang, Brendon Taylor, Zoe Belfanti, Mathilda Richardson, and Sophia Marosszeky.
CREATIVES
WRITER | Clare McIntyre
DIRECTOR | Justin Martin
PRODUCER | Thread Entertainment in association with Red Line Productions.
CHOREOGRAPHER | Tom Hodgson
SET AND COSTUME DESIGN | Jonathan Hindmarsh
LIGHTING DESIGNER | Emma Lockhart-Wilson
COMPOSER/MUSIC DIRECTOR | Claire Healy
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR | Lizzie Schebesta
STAGEMANAGER | – Eva Tandy
PUBLICITY | IPPublicity
GRAPHIC DESIGN | How Graphic Design
★★★★★ Performances
"Low Level Panic is a powerful piece that will resonate with Sydney audiences - both it's male and female members"
THEATREPEOPLE
★★★★★
"[The] production succeeds in demanding the audience’s attention, refracting voyeurism, questioning ongoing problems of sexual objectification and extensively excavating the issues at the heart of the play".
PUBLIC REVIEWS
★★★★
A must see.... Low Level Panic strikes me as the one show we need to see right now.
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
"[a] bold, courageous production that pokes its fingers – with a punkish derision – in the eyes of convention. Director Justin Martin effectively shifts the production into a contemporary Irish setting and imaginatively interprets the text".
Brendan Daly IRISH THEATRE MAGAZINE
CAST - Irish/UK.
JO | Eimer Kilmartin
MARY | Sarah O'Toole
CELIA | Aoife Martyn
With Jerry Fitzgerald, Eric Martyn, Eoin Barton, Alannah Kelly, Alex Nilsson, and Abigail Somers.
CREATIVES
WRITER | Clare McIntyre
DIRECTOR | Justin Martin
PRODUCER | Anam Theatre.
COMPOSER/MUSIC DIRECTOR | Claire Healy
REVIEWS FOR THE IRISH PRODUCTION:
Anam’s production succeeds in demanding the audience’s attention, refracting voyeurism, questioning ongoing problems of sexual objectification and extensively excavating the issues at the heart of the play.
PUBLIC REVIEWS
A cruel wit… an impressive set and intelligent social commentary … ambitious.
Kate Coleman LE COOL
Claire McIntyre’s sharp, comic three-hander….as topical as ever.
METRO
Low Level Panic is a powerful piece of theatre, combining humour with the hard hitting topics. It’s one to see!
END NOTE
... funny, unflinching…
GALWAY CITY TRIBUNE
The Galway-based theatre company anatomises this uncompromising text with a rattling urgency while celebrating the simmering comedy around which McIntyre wraps her feminist missile.
IRISH THEATRE MAGAZINE
Nothing short of amazing….sent chills down my spine….Brilliant…..powerful.
DEREKPETERSWRITES
Anam’s innovative production succeeds in balancing high entertainment with a probing of issues that are becoming more and more pressing in our contemporary mediatised culture.
PUBLIC REVIEWS
… brave and ambitious…The level of technical difficulty of this piece is impressive and ... Inventive.
NO MORE WORKHORSE
A startling series of dream-like, freeze-frame sequences, where the characters move in a wordless symmetry, splatters this production’s canvas and lends it a cinematic quality.
IRISH THEATRE MAGAZINE
Claire Healy’s original music, lyrics and dance …. take the production smoothly into Brechtian territory, functioning both to entertain and to alienate.
THE PUBLIC REVIEWS
The soundtrack is well put together, the songs chosen underlining the here and now, with …. original music by Claire Healy adding to the piece and helping to make it more accessible.
THE RED CURTAIN REVIEW
Eimear Kilmartin is captivating as the brazen but bereft Jo; Sarah O’Toole powerfully embodies Mary’s soul-searching and scorn; and Aoife Martyn finds comedy and charm within the more marginal character of Celia.
PUBLIC REVIEWS
Martyn mines the comedy of her character’s focused, ritualistic placement of her five moisturiser bottles at the side of the bath and, in the panicked way she reacts to the car horn of her new boyfriend, emphasises how Celia is already manipulating herself to fit the grooves of her man.
Brendan Daly IRISH THEATRE MAGAZINE
Eimear Kilmartin gives a strong performance, embodying Jo brilliantly from the word go, showing an innocent side, the get up and go side and the heartbreaking loneliness she feels.
THE RED CURTAIN REVIEW
In an empathetically observed depiction, Sarah O’Toole embodies the rampant tension between Mary’s desire to conform and her urge to be true to her convictions. (Jo wants Mary to “Forget who you are.”) O’Toole assiduously sculpts this conflict into her frenzied preparation for the party, as she zealously tries to crowbar herself into towering stilettoes, and the vigour with which she rips off the skin-coloured dress that makes her “feel like a tart”.
IRISH THEATRE MAGAZINE
Foul-mouthed and funny…..Low Level Panic, high level theatre.
ADVERTISER
There are many interesting insights in this production that lead you to view the world differently as you leave the theatre.
NO MORE WORKHORSE
Justin Martin’s direction on the whole is striking….direct, upfront, strong and humorous.
Alan Foran THE RED CURTAIN REVIEW
Under Justin Martin’s skilled direction, each of the main performers mines the emotional epicentre of her character, and the chemistry between all three encourages the audience to invest in their clashing, ultimately unresolved, anxieties.
PUBLIC REVIEWS
Immediate, relevant and important. [You've] got to see Low Level Panic at the new theatre by Anam Theatre.
THE RED CURTAIN REVIEW