Attempts on Her Life
[ The University of Melbourne Voice Vol. 3, No. 2
12 May - 9 June 2008 ]
Twenty-first century obsessions from pornography and ethnic violence, to terrorism and unprotected sex offer a roller-coaster ride of shock and hilarity in Martin Crimp’s post-modern play Attempts on Her Life opening this week for a limited season in the Guild Theatre at the University of Melbourne.
Martin Crimp, one of Britain’s most important contemporary playwrights, changed the theatrical landscape of the 1990s and challenged what, and how, ideas could be presented on stage.
Fiercely poetic, political, but above all, hilarious, Crimp’s writing rejects conventional character and narrative structure and invites us to look at theatre, our world and ourselves in very different ways.
The Union House Theatre production, directed by Susie Dee, leads University of Melbourne student actors, including creative secondments from the University’s Victorian College of the Arts, into a collage of theatrical genres.
Susie explains the production as “a pastiche of imagery and loosely linked threads weave a shifting tale of imagination and intrigue through darkly comic, irony-laden scenarios”.
She describes the production as a funfair ride in which the identity of the central character Annie, Anja or Anne is imagined, discussed, dissected and possibly dismissed.
Sound design and composition is by Kelly Ryall, lighting design by Niklas Pajanti, audiovisual design by Nicholas Verso, design by VCA Honours student Jeminah Reidy, and Assistant Direction by University of Melbourne student Chris Summers.
Attempts on Her Life, subtitled 17 scenarios for the theatre, 8pm, 16- 24 May, Guild Theatre, first floor, Union House, University of Melbourne. $20 Full/$12 Concession/$10 Student Union Members. Bookings: (03) 8344 7447 or www.union.unimelb.edu.au/tickets
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