ATTEMPTS ON HER LIFE
17 plots for the theatre

20th - 24th May 2009
Performance Times
8.00 pm

by Martin Crimp
translated by Margherita D’Amico
directed by Fabrizio Arcuri
dramaturgy by Luca Scarlini
set and costume design by Rita Bucchi
lighting design by Diego Labonia
soundtrack by DJ Ras Noiz
sound technician Daniele Incudine
video contributions by Piero Lassandro
starring Miriam Abutori, Matteo Angius, Gabriele Benedetti, Paola Cannizzaro, Fabrizio Croci, Daria Deflorian, Pieraldo Girotto, Sandro Mabellini, Simona Senzacqua, Antonio Tagliarini and Annapaola Vellaccio

Attempts on her Life is perhaps the most famous and intriguing work by English playwright Martin Crimp, a member the 1990s new wave together with Sarah Kane.  It is a radical work and a real challenge to tackle, made up as it is of 17 micro-plays based on the absence of characters and their multiple identities. Each plot has a different title with no subdivision into characters or indications of any kind. The start of each line is marked by a hyphen, and only the stage action and the formation of relationships determine which and how many actors perform the piece. The performance is faithful to the written text and to the lack of necessity of identifying the roles and characters or settings, which are merely hints to send the audience even further off track. Viewers may even lose themselves, if they so wish, in this labyrinth of linguistic misunderstandings and errors which is the reality with which Crimp presents us.