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Frank, funny play asks hard-hitting questions
Low Level Panic, a funny, unflinching drama that explores how society views women’s lives, their bodies, their sexuality and their safety, will be staged by Galway’s Anam Theatre at the City’s Nuns Island Theatre from next Wednesday, April 30 to Saturday May 3 at 8pm nightly.
Anam first presented this piece, written in the late 1980s by the late Clare McIntyre, at last year’s Galway Theatre Festival. Director Justin Martin, who also directed on that occasion, has added elements to the new production to “make it better”, as he and Sarah explain over lunch on a break from rehearsals.
London-based Justin recently worked as associate director on the award-winning productions of Let the Right One In and The Audience. Next up, he will be Stephen Daldry’s associate on the drama, Skylight, starring Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy which will open this summer in London’s West End.
For a small company like Anam to get a director of his experience is significant and it happened because of his friendship with Anam founder, Sarah O’Toole, a friendship that stretches back to their days studying for an MA in theatre directing at Middlesex University.