Attempts On Her Life

Presented by State Theatre Company of South Australia in association with Adelaide Festival Centre’s iNSPACE program

"She comes down one night and tells her mum and dad she wants to be a terrorist."

Imagine you're trying to speak to a woman called Anne. You leave messages on her machine, but in vain. It's as if she's disappeared. Where? With whom? To do what? Who else is leaving her messages? Is she alive or dead? Is she Anne, Annie, or Anya? The more unreachable she is, the more you wonder who she really is.

If she could disappear so inexplicably, then perhaps she's not the person you thought she was. You begin to fantasise. She's with a casual lover in a foreign hotel. She's a terrorist on the run. She's a psychotic artist turning her attempted suicide into an artwork. She's the wife of a right-wing anarchist maniac. She's a luxury sports car. The "attempts on her life" are attempts to define her life.

"A theatrical experience of disorienting power." - The Independent

This production contains frequent coarse language.