LOW LEVEL PANIC REVIEW, Apuntes de Teatro

Low-Level Panic

CLARE MCINTYRE

It was a great success in its time. It is a good example about theatre of violence.

It s a good play because it shows us a woman opinion about pregnancy and the feeling of a

woman who has suffered rape. The best thing of that play is that we learn about the feelings and

opinions of women written by a woman, Claire McIntyre. It is a woman talking about it and that

give us a different way to express it.

I would define the language as "current day" language, colloquial. The play is developed in the

house where the women live, and it is also a wink to the audience because it happens in the

metaphorical one, make that we can enter on their head and we can see what they really feel

because they let us to enter into them.

There is also a film adaptation of the play and the playwright, McIntyre, express clearly that she

won't a toilet in the bathroom because they don't use it, but in the film there is a toilet and, in

fact, they use it.

I think the most important part of the play is the rape because it is well performed although two

men are raping her but there are no actors to represent these characters, it is represented just by

the raped woman, you don't need too much in order to show something that disgust all of us.

You don't need two men there so as to see and feel what is happening. We're creating violence

with very simple elements. We're talking about "In-yer-face Theatre."