{"product_id":"my-hearts-a-suitcase-low-level-panic","title":"My Heart's a Suitcase \u0026 Low Level Panic","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo modern feminist classics by a writer who was amongst the extraordinary generation of British female playwrights to emerge in the 1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'McIntyre's first Royal Court play, \u003cem\u003eLow Level Panic\u003c\/em\u003e, [is] a deft and funny all-female three-hander, set in a bathroom... The play was directed in 1988 by Nancy Meckler with Caroline Quentin, Lorraine Brunning and Alaine Hickmott in the principal roles. The panic of the title is provoked by omnipresent pornography and a sexual assault on one of the characters. But the play's originality and boldness lie in its treatment of the characters' complex relationships with their own sexual fantasies, their bodies and each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'In McIntyre's next play,\u003cem\u003e My Heart's a Suitcase\u003c\/em\u003e, which had its premiere at the Royal Court in 1990, the sense of invasion felt by the two female central characters is dramatised by characters called Pest and Luggage, who burst unpredictably through the walls of the seaside flat in which the play is set. ... McIntyre's theatrical imagination [is] matched by an unsentimental but sympathetic portrayal of women trying to make sense of their place in a threatening and intrusive world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'\u003cem\u003eLow Level Panic\u003c\/em\u003e won the Samuel Beckett award, while \u003cem\u003eMy Heart's a Suitcase\u003c\/em\u003e earned McIntyre the Evening Standard's most promising playwright award, with both plays quickly entering the feminist theatre canon.' David Edgar, \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nick Hern Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54248619180376,"sku":"9781854592460","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781854592460_cac5ab40-6485-41a2-82f1-abbf980ac62f.jpg?v=1777849227","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/my-hearts-a-suitcase-low-level-panic","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}