Attempts on Her Life is a slice of theatre which takes fragments from life and slowly pieces them together. Each fragment is apparently enclosed, but when read as a whole they evoke a world of power and fear.

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

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

Martin Crimp's Attempts on her Life premi red at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, West Street, London in March 1997.