An Intriguing Experiment
by Valerie Cardinal
Who is Anne? Is she a porn star, mother, suicidal artist, terrorist, girl next door, new car?
These are the questions that Martin Crimp’s Attempts on Her Life never answers. Attempts on Her Life is by no means a play in the traditional sense, as it has no plot or central characters. The performance is composed of 16 vignettes about Anne, a character with many incarnations who is never present on the stage. In fact, Anne is less of a character and more of a concept.
