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Subtitled ‘17 scenarios for the theatre’, Martin Crimp’s post modern play Attempts on Her Life is a rollercoaster of 21st Century obsessions
from pornography and ethnic violence, to terrorism and unprotected sex. Shocking and hilarious by turns, its strange array of nameless
characters attempt to invent the perfect story to encapsulate our time.
Martin Crimp is one of Britain’s most important contemporary playwrights. Fiercely poetic, political, but above all, hilarious,
Crimp’s writing invites us to look at theatre, our world and ourselves in very different ways.
Director Susie Dee explains the production as, ‘a pastiche of imagery and loosely linked threads weave a shifting tale of imagination and intrigue
through these darkly comic, irony-laden scenarios.'
Directed by Susie Dee (Melbourne Workers Theatre, Circus Oz)
Sound design/composition by Kelly Ryall (Tenderness, Chapters of the Pandemic)
Lighting design by Niklas Pajanti (trafficlight)
Audiovisual design by Nicholas Verso (Hugo)
Design by VCA Honours student Jeminah Reidy (Perjured City, The Dolls House)
Assistant Direction by University of Melbourne student Chris Summers
Attempts on Her Life features a cast of University of Melbourne students with VCA student creative secondments.
Special Mention – 2007 Green Room Nominations, winners to be announced April 20th:
• Susie Dee for direction of White with Wire Wheels (Union House Theatre)
• Niklas Pajanti for lighting design for theatre – Holiday (Ranters
Theatre) and lighting design for dance – This Show Is About People
(Shaun Parker/ Marguerite Pepper/Melbourne International Arts Festival)
• Kelly Ryall nominated twice for sound design/music and composition for Chapters from the Pandemic.
MU Student Union Ltd's Union House Theatre presents
Attempts on Her Life
by Martin Crimp
Directed by Susie Dee
Venue: Guild Theatre, first floor, Union House, University of Melbourne
Time and dates: 8pm, 16 - 24 May 2008
Tickets: $20 Full/$12 Concession/$10 Student Union Members
Bookings: (03) 8344 7447 | www.union.unimelb.edu.au/tickets
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