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Dateline: 16th June, 2004 James Menzies Kitchin Memorial Trust Award 2004 The winner of the James Menzies Kitchin Memorial Trust Award 2004 presents:
Attempts on her Life
by Martin Crimp
Anne Tipton, winner of the 7th James Menzies – Kitchin Memorial Trust Award for Young Directors, has chosen to stage Martin Crimp’s modern classic Attempts on her Life at BAC. Anne recently enjoyed further success after winning a prestigious Channel Four Theatre Director Scheme Bursary. As a result, following her time at BAC Anne will spend one year as assistant director at the Bristol Old Vic under Simon Reade and David Farr.
First performed in 1997 at the Royal Court, Attempts on her Life is divided into a series of short and seemingly unconnected dramatic incidents that challenges the established idea of central character. Here, the heroine in question is never seen. Variously known as Anne, Annie, Anushka or Anya, this enigmatic individual adopts a bewildering number of personas that range from a porn star to a mother of three, an international terrorist, a dead child and even a brand of car. Is she the practitioner of violence or its object? The audience plays the role of detective, piecing together scattered clues in search of her identity.
This timely revival reintroduces a play that considers many facets of modern society including consumerism, capitalism and the trade marking of the international terrorist threat. Martin Crimp’s recent plays include the sell-out new version of Marivaux’s The False Servant at the National Theatre and the widely praised Cruel and Tender at the Young Vic, an interpretation of Sophocles’ Trachiniae.
Anne Tipton trained at Middlesex University before becoming a trainee director at The Gate assisting Erica Whyman. Here she directed Ionesco’s The Lesson before going on to assist Mehmet Ergen at the Arcola. In 2003 she joined the director’s programme at the National Theatre Studio.
Designer Naomi Dawson’s recent productions include Headstone, Kismet, Mud, Venezuela and Trash (all at Arcola); Canaries Sometimes Sing (Red Lion) and Jus’ a Little Simply Heavenly (Young Vic Studio).
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