Panic (theatre show)

Improbable's latest theatre show PANIC opens at the Wexner Center Ohio in March 2009. Before fulfilling a UK Tour which results in a five week run at the Barbican, London.

PANIC s an intimate story drawn from the personal stories and current obsessions of the collaborators. A tale of love and unsettling illnesses, this is Improbable with brown paper and video projections, a lot of self-help books and some very chaseable nymphs.

Over recent years Improbable theatre have created a number of large scale projects including Sticky, an outdoor site-specific piece playing to tens of thousands of people; Theatre of Blood (with the National Theatre), The Wolves In The Walls (with National Theatre of Scotland) and Satyagraha (with ENO and Metropolitan Opera).

Panic takes Improbable back to their roots; to a smaller scale and the devising processes of their early shows, 70 Hill Lane, Coma and Spirit. This is the first time since 2003 that Improbable Artistic Directors Julian Crouch, Phelim and Lee Simpson have worked together to originate a new piece.

Commissioned by barbicanbite09, Wexner Centre for the Arts at The Ohio State University and Sydney Opera House.

PANIC is touring to the following venues:

4 – 8 March 2009: Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio

19 - 21 March 2009: Corn Exchange, Newbury

24 - 28 March 2009: Unity Theatre, Liverpool

1 – 9 April 2009: West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds

15 April – 16 May 2009: Barbican, London