Attempts on Her Life by Split Focus

“Anne? Brilliant. It’s moving. It’s timely. It’s distressing. It’s funny. It’s sexy. It’s deeply serious. It’s entertaining. It’s illuminating. It’s cryptic. It’s dark. Let’s meet. Call me.”

Split Focus brings Attempts on Her Life by Martin Crimp to The Stables at Meat Market in a dynamic, site-specific adventure reverberating with a late 20th century aesthetic from 18 – 27 August.

Directed by Angelica Clunes and Samuel Boyd, audiences move from one room to the next in a phantasmagoria of images, examining how a single moment can impact on a life, and how quickly an identity can be demolished. Moving between comedy, pop-opera, campfire ghost-story and absurdist tragedy, this compelling work leaves the audience to decide who Anne could be in this brilliant theatrical labyrinth.

Translated into 20 languages and played to audiences around the world, Attempts on Her Life is an arresting and hilarious theatre work of 17 scenarios that explores our understanding of the human psyche. In a media-drenched world obsessed with uncovering the ‘truth’, Attempts on Her Life is both timely and relevant.

Directed and Produced by | Angelica Clunes + Samuel Boyd
With Performances by | Danae Reid, Emily Carr, Finn Alexander, Helene Dunlop, Joanna Bakker, Kashmira Mohamed Zagor + Rayhan Maskun
Set + Costume Design | Oliver Lacoon Williamson
Lighting Design | Helen Morris
Dressmaker | Shea Felicity Hine
Photography by Sarah Walker

STAGING:
This performance includes content which some people may find distressing including allusions to: violence against women, violence against children, violence perpetrated as an act of war or terrorism, suicide, and suicidal ideation, homophobia, racism and misogyny.

This work is site responsive and audiences will be directed to move through three spaces within The Stables. This is not an interactive performance, and actors will at no times ask the audience to take on performative roles within the work. Actors may at times direct the audience to move to a specific location through gesture or touch. If you would prefer not to be engaged with in this manner, please let Front of House staff know when you check in.