CAST

Jacq SELINA BOYACKFay VERONICA LEER

Directedby.........................................AlisonPeeblesDesign...................................................ColinO’HaraSoundDesign.................................NicholaScruttonLightingDesign ..............................GrantAndersonProductionManager..............................AlanWrightProductionAssistant.........GraemeAlexanderYoungProducedby...................................StevenThomson

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OrnithologistsJacqandFayareonaremoteislandinthefarnorthofScotlandinvestigatingsuddenchangesinbirdmigrationpatterns.Faybelievesthesechangessignifyforthcomingdisaster.Jacqthinkstheisolationismakingheryoungerloverparanoid.Buttheyweremeanttoleavetheislandfivedaysago,theirboathomestillhasn’tarrivedandtheirradiohasbeendeadforaweek.Sometimestender,sometimesdisorientating,Panic Patterns drawsoncontemporaryfearstocreateanedgy,suspensefuldramaforanewdecade.

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BIOGRAPHIES

LOUISE WELSH istheauthoroffournovels,The Cutting Room, Tamburlaine Must Die, The Bullet TrickandNaming the Bones(CanongateBooks).ShehaswrittenmanyshortstoriesandproducedfeaturesformostofthemajorBritishbroadsheets.Louisehasalsopresentedseveralradioprogrammes,mostrecentlyThe Gorbals Vampire forBBCRadio4andTibet on the Banks of the ClydeforBBCRadio3.Herplay,The Importance of Being AlfredisavailablefromNickHernBooksin

‘ScottishShorts’.In2009Glasgay!commissionedLouisetowriteanewplay,Memory CellswhichappearedtocriticalacclaimattheArches.AsecondproductionofMemory CellswasproducedatthePleasanceaspartofthisyear’sEdinburghFringe.Louise’sworkhasbeentranslatedintwentylanguagesandshehasbeentherecipientofseveralawardsandinternationalfellowships.www.louisewelsh.com

ZOË STRACHANistheauthorofNegative Space andSpin Cycle (Picador).TheformerwonaBettyTraskAwardandwasshortlistedfortheSaltireFirstBookoftheYearAward.Zoëalsowritesshortstories,essays,journalismandforradio.ShehasreceivedvariousinternationalfellowshipsincludingaHawthorndenFellowship,HermannKestenStipendiumandRobertLouisStevensonFellowship.HerplayOld Girlsopenedthe2009/10seasonofAPlay,aPieandaPintatOranMorinGlasgow,andhershortoperaSublimation(withcomposerNickFells)touredinMay2010withScottishOperaandwillbeperformedinSouthAfricabyCapeTownOperainNovember2010.ShelivesinGlasgowwheresheteachesparttimeontheCreativeWritingprogrammeattheUniversityofGlasgowandrecentlyshecompletedherthirdnovel,Ever Fallen in Love?www.zoestrachan.com

SELINA BOYACK (Jacq)SelinagraduatedfromtheRoyalScottishAcademyofMusicandDramain1993.RecentworkincludesThe City,TronTheatreandAn Argument About Sex,Tramway.ShealsoworkedwithAnthonyNeilsononStichingandThe Menuandonhisfilm,The Debt Collector,andwithSuspectCultureon8000 Metres,A Different LanguageandThe Escapologist andrecentlyatÒranMóronseveralnewworks.SelinahasalsoworkedwiththeArchesTheatreCo,UntitledProductions,andhasbeenawriterthisyearonattchmentwithNTS.

AGlasgay!Commission&WorldPremiere

BY ZOË STRACHAN & LOUISE WELSH

DirectedbyAlisonPeebles

Citizens’Theatre19-30October2010

PANIC PATTERNS

VERONICA LEER (Fay)VeronicatrainedattheRSAMDandisdelightedtohaveworkedonthispieceofnewwritingforGlasgay.SomeofherfavouriterolesincludeHeleninThe Cripple of Innishmann,CharlotteinCharlotte’s Web,MabelinAn Ideal Husband andPuck in A Midsummer Nights Dream.MostrecentlysheplayedtheDeputyFirstMinisterofNorthernIrelandintheradioplayTrouble and Shame byDavidIreland.

ALISON PEEBLES (Director)AlisonPeebleshasdirectedmanyproductionsforTheatre,RadioandFilmincludingthefirstproductionforNationalTheatreofScotland,Home–Aberdeen;Award-winningFeatureFilmAfterLife anddocumentaryMultipleaboutherlifewithMS.whichshealsoco-produced.AsanactorshehashadacelebratedcareermostrecentlyplayingSisterAlysiousinDoubtatTheTronandSheilaCarrollinRiver City.

COLIN O’HARA (Design)ColinO’HaraisaGlasgowbasedArchitectandInteriorDesignerwithhisowncompany,cohdesign.ThisishisthirdfullscaletheatredesignforGlasgay.in2008hedesignedTennesseeWilliam’sAnd Tell The Sad Stories of the Death of Queens. In2009hedesignedMemory Cells byLouiseWelsh.ThisishissecondproductionattheCitz.HisworkcanalsobeseenattheGFTcafébarandinnumeroushomesaroundGlasgow.colinohara@gmail.com

NICHOLA SCRUTTON (SoundDesign)Nicholaisacomposer/performer,soundartistandfacilitator.Herworkincludessolovocalperformance,studiocomposition,collaborationsintheatreandvisualarts,performingwithexperimentalmusicgroupsandvariouseducationoutreachprojects.NicholagainedaPhDinelectroacousticcompositionfromGlasgowUniversity(2009)andteachespart-timeinMusicthere.www.nicholascrutton.co.uk

NicholawouldliketothankCreativeScotlandforadditionalsupport;DavidCode,NickFellsandtheUniversityofGlasgow(Music)forequipment.

ALUN WRIGHT (ProductionManager)AlunworksasaproductionmanagerbetweentheUKandEgypt,wherehealsoteachesstagemanagementtoyoungtheatremakers.LastyearhecamebacktotheUKtore-establishprofessionaltiesandtoworkforGlasgayonThe Maw Broon MonologuesbyJackieKay.

GRANT ANDERSON (LightingDesign)GrantAndersonisagraduateofTheRoyalScottishAcademyofMusicandDrama.Hisportfoliorangesfrommusicaltheatreandcabarettoarchitecture,clubanddramalighting.HavingjustfinishedMacPherson’sRantinEdinburgh.HelastworkedwithGlasgay!in2009onThe Maw Broon MonologuesbyJackieKay.

GRAEME ALEXANDER-YOUNG (ProductionAssistant)GraemetrainedasanactoranddirectorattheRSAMD.HeispleasedtobeworkingagainwithAlisonPeebles.ThisishisfirsttimeworkingwithGlasgayandhasprovedtobeanexerciseinlove.

SPECIAL THANKS RaymondShort-FightCo-ordinator

THANKSProfessorNeilMetcalfeandtheOrnithologyDept,GlasgowUniversity;JohnRae;LouiseScott;LucindaBroadbent;SusannahConran;MartinMcInally;MaryMaxwell;EleanorMackay;JoMasson;RaymondShort;TronTheatre;Citizens’Theatre;RSAMD;H.Samuel,ArgyleArcade;GlasgowBinocular;A.J.Johnson&Co.Ltd;In–TimeWatchServicesLtd.

PRODUCED BY GLASGAY! t/aGALAScotlandLtd87-91Saltmarket,GlasgowG15LETel01415527575/8info@glasgay.com | www.glasgay.comALtdCo.Reg.SC157153CharitySCO23620VATReg797386359