CAST Jacq SELINA BOYACK Fay VERONICA LEER Directed by ......................................... Alison Peebles Design ................................................... Colin O’Hara Sound Design ................................. Nichola Scruon Lighng Design .............................. Grant Anderson Producon Manager .............................. Alan Wright Producon Assistant ......... Graeme Alexander Young Produced by ................................... Steven Thomson Ô Ô Ô Ornithologists Jacq and Fay are on a remote island in the far north of Scotland invesgang sudden changes in bird migraon paerns. Fay believes these changes signify forthcoming disaster. Jacq thinks the isolaon is making her younger lover paranoid. But they were meant to leave the island five days ago, their boat home sll hasn’t arrived and their radio has been dead for a week. Somemes tender, somemes disorientang, Panic Paerns draws on contemporary fears to create an edgy, suspenseful drama for a new decade. Ô Ô Ô BIOGRAPHIES LOUISE WELSH is the author of four novels, The Cung Room, Tamburlaine Must Die, The Bullet Trick and Naming the Bones (Canongate Books). She has wrien many short stories and produced features for most of the major Brish 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 ‘Scosh Shorts’. In 2009 Glasgay! commissioned Louise to write a new play, Memory Cells which appeared to crical acclaim at the Arches. A second producon 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 internaonal fellowships. www.louisewelsh.com ZOË STRACHAN is the author of Negave Space and Spin Cycle (Picador). The former won a Bey Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Salre First Book of the Year Award. Zoë also writes short stories, essays, journalism and for radio. She has received various internaonal fellowships including a Hawthornden Fellowship, Hermann Kesten Spendium 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 Sublimaon (with composer Nick Fells) toured in May 2010 with Scosh Opera and will be performed in South Africa by Cape Town Opera in November 2010. She lives in Glasgow where she teaches part me on the Creave Wring 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 Scosh 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 Sching 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, Untled Producons, and has been a writer this year on achment with NTS. A Glasgay! Commission & World Premiere BY ZOË STRACHAN & LOUISE WELSH Directed by Alison Peebles Cizens’ Theatre 19-30 October 2010 PANIC PATTERNS