Attempts to describe her? Attempts to destroy her? Or attempts to destroy herself?

Is Anne the object of violence? Or its terrifying practitioner?

Welcome Stranger and the Fringe Festival present Attempts on Her Life by award winning playwright Martin Crimp.

Anne is a terrorist, a victim, a femme fatale and an artist but what is her motive? Anne offers you a flash, a scenario, a condensed narrative – opposing the purest form of speculation against every event said to be real.

Attempts on Her Life is the standout event for the Fringe Festival. Theatre for a world in which theatre is dead. A pre-emptive exploration of terrorism, celebrity and spin in a political climate where everything is possible and nothing is real – except, of course, Anne.

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Welcome Stranger & Melbourne Fringe Festival present

ATTEMPTS ON HER LIFE

by Martin Crimp

Directed by Lauren Barnes & Harriet O’Donnell

Performed by Rhys Auteri, Kristy Barnes-Cullen, Zoë Boesen, Raphael Hammond, Vlad Mijic, Ben Mitchell, Harriet O’Donnell and Kim Swalwell

Stage Manager Nick Coulson

Dates: October 4 – 9, 2004

Venue: New Ballroom, Trades Hall

Time: Mon – Sat, 8pm

Tickets: $18 / $14