Attempts on Her Life

PREMIERE 24/10/1997
Toneelgroep Amsterdam

Anne’s answering machine reels off messages for her. Concerned friends, acquaintances, pornographic fantasies. Yet Anne herself never appears in the course of the play, not once. The story of a tragic love apparently, of betrayal against a background of political persecution. Anne, the terrorist, the cold-blooded assassin… her biography a sequence of vague clues, contradictory second-hand information, fragments of a human identity. From “17 Scenarios for the Theatre” the portrait is pieced together of a woman who persists in her absence. Playful sequences, choreography, film material, voices from off stage – thematically interlinked – attempt to bring her to life and in the process unintentionally reveal more about those who are talking about her.

by Martin Crimp

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