Attempts on Her Life by Martin Crimp
Schapiro Theatre, NYC - 2015
“And it turns out how he and Annie and the kids are making this new heat? Well, life. They are making this new, yes, life for themselves away from the city. Living off the land. Growing stuff. Trapping stuff. Boring under the earth for clean pure water. Educating their own children. In the belief that Man is free before God to forge his own destiny and take whatever means necessary to protect his family.
And over lunch - which is basically a kind of chicken salad with mayonnaise - we learn how he is in fact the commanding officer of a whole group of like-minded individuals who have armed themselves not out of any thirst for blood, but out of necessity because it is war. ‘War?’ says Mom. “How d’you mean, war?’”
Light: Abigail Hoke Brady
Set & Costume: Colm McNally
Sound: Lester St. Louis
Movement: Kelsey Burns & Abdiel Jacobson (Martha Graham Dance)
Dramaturgy: Kate Mulley & Bethie Fowler