Casting Announced for LOW LEVEL PANIC

The cast for the first major revival of Clare McIntyre's Low Level Panic, directed by Chelsea Walker, is Sophie Melville (nominated for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for Iphigenia in Splott), Katherine Pearce (Lyric's Secret Theatre) and Samantha Pearl (Belarus Free Theatre's Tomorrow I Was Always a Lion).

When am I going to wake up and be different?

Three flatmates. A single bathroom. And a whole world of men.

Mary's found some porn in their bin, and needs to talk about it. But Jo's in the bath, fantasizing about being someone else. And Celia just wants to look her best for the party tonight.

In this funny, timely and unapologetic play, three twenty-something women figure out how they really feel about sex, their bodies and each other.

With a vibrancy and stylistic freedom, Low Level Panic interrogates the effects of society's objectification of women.

Clare McIntyre's (1952-2009) Low Level Panic won the Samuel Beckett award when it premiered at the Royal Court in 1988, while her next play My Heart's a Suitcase earned her the Evening Standard's Most Promising Playwright Award.

Chelsea Walker, runner-up, JMK Award 2016, directs. She is part of The Old Vic 12. She has directed P'Yongyang by In-Sook Chappell and Chicken Dust by Ben Weatherill (Finborough); Klippies by Jessica Sian (Southwark Playhouse); Lean by Isley Lynn (Tristan Bates); and Occupied by Catriona Kerridge (BAC/Bush). She has assisted James MacDonald and Simon Godwin.

Sophie Melville (Mary)

Nominated for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress 2016 for her solo performance in Iphigenia in Splott (Sherman/Edinburgh Fringe/National Theatre). Other theatre includes 2066 (Almeida); Blackbird (The Other Room, Cardiff); Insignificance, Under Milk Wood (Theatr Clwyd); Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (Sherman); and The Shape of Things, See How They Run, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (Theatre by the Lake). TV includes The Missing.

Katherine Pearce (Jo)
Theatre work includes Husbands and Sons (National Theatre/Royal Exchange); Stab in the Dark, A Series of Increasingly Impossible Acts, Glitterland, Chamber Piece, A Streetcar Named Desire and Woyzeck (Secret Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith); Port (National Theatre); and Round 'Ere (Bush/Edinburgh Fringe)

Samantha Pearl (Celia)

Theatre work includes Tomorrow I Was Always a Lion (Belarus Free Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Watermill, Newbury); Brave New World (Royal & Derngate, Northampton); Brendan at the Chelsea (Lyric Belfast/New York); and Clean (Oran Mor/Traverse). Films include Legend.

This production contains strong language and non-sexual nudity.

Ticket Prices (NO BOOKING FEES)

Previews £15 (16, 17, 18 Feb) | Mon - Thu evenings & matinees £20 | Fri & Sat evenings £25

Under 30s £12 (tickets available for Mon - Thu eve performances)

Standing £10 (when all seats have been sold)

Concessions £15 concession tickets are available for Monday evenings and midweek matinees to over 60s, students, recipients of state benefit and members of theatre unions and guilds on presentation of proof. £15 tickets available for disabled patrons plus one escort at the same rate; £10 tickets available for blind or partially-sighted patrons and an escort at the same price.