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An excerpt from "The City" performed by Nathania Bernabe.Written by Martin Crimp
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*MATURE SUBJECT MATTER The University College Drama ProgramAt The University of TorontoPresentsTHE CANADIAN PREMIERE OFAttempts On Her LifeBy Martin CrimpDir...
A scene from Attempts on Her Life by Martin Crimp - A foyer video used as an Exordium/Prologue.University of Wales, Newport - IFSW. Grad Show 2010.Lawrence H...
Nov 25, 2021 · Martin Crimp’s postmodernist Attempts on Her Life is an abstract piece of theatre, composed of 17 interlinked scenes all centring around the ever-changing figure “Anne”, who is the enigma of...
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- Finding The Forms
- So What's It All About?
- New Tricks - The Place of New Technology in 'Attempts on Her Life'
Our first task was to gather around a table and read the play. We divided the dialogue quite randomly between the actors, and read through each of the seventeen scenes, after each episode discussing what we thought the text was indicating, in terms of characters, context or meaning. Some decisions seemed to be arrived at arbitrarily: "This scene so...
I didn't want the actors to be restricted by these newly discovered characters at the expense of other ideas, so we didn't refer directly to these initial exercises when working on the text. Rather the focus was on identifying a solid, workable context for each scene. The media pervades the entire play, and what emerged was a sense that each scene ...
It would be tempting to go down the road of "letting the audience decide what the play means" but this strikes me as a poor disguise for a lack of investigation. I am happy to say that all those "I don't knows" have been replaced by a clear sense of what Attempts on Her Life means. This conclusion has been reached not by our own impositions on it, ...
There is an ongoing debate about the use of new technology in the theatre. What is accurate is to say that incorporating film, projections and other "non-theatrical" techniques into performances seems to be increasing in popularity, and it is the professional theatre that leads the way. At first glance, this might seem logical. Film is perceived as...
Mar 10, 2012 · An intense, bony-faced man with a sweep of long grey hair, the 56-year-old Crimp chooses his words with the care of a perfectionist. Despite his reputation as the outstanding playwright of his generation - he was the late Sarah Kane ’s favourite writer - he’s still uncomfortable in interviews.
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Martin Crimp. As writer: For the Royal Court: In the Republic of Happiness, The City, Fewer Emergencies, Advice to Iraqi Women, Face to the Wall, The Country, Attempts on Her Life, The Treatment, Getting Attention, No One Sees the Video.
