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Quirked-up Tiger that dabbles in lots of stuff. This blog is for art and writing (English/Esperanto)


Attempts on Her Life -- Martin Crimp

From Wikipedia :

(Martin) Crimp’s play Attempts on Her Life, which premiered at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 1997, was, according to critic Aleks Sierz, the “event that secured his reputation as the most innovative, most exciting and most exportable playwright of his generation.” [Sierz, Aleks, Aleks, (2013) p.48][1] In this work, none of the lines is assigned to a particular character, nor does Crimp specify how many actors should perform the piece. In seventeen apparently disconnected scenes, groups of people give mutually contradictory descriptions of an absent protagonist, a woman talked of as if she were, variously, a terrorist, the daughter of grieving parents, an artist and a new car. This deliberately fragmented work challenges an audience to re-define its notion of what constitutes a "play" and might seem to question whether someone has any existence beyond the models we construct.


#2 :

D ream - February 23, '23. In what looked like my old driveway from childhood, I remember an eerie disembodied voice saying the phrase "uncanny valley". I saw cartoonish figures T-posing and sliding towards me. I thought this was a funny thing, I responded by trying to "run" forward while being pushed backward into the void behind me. There was a tiger-related song in my head on waking.

#3

T his dream took place largely in my (late) Uncle Johnny's house. Primarily in his sitting room. I sat with strangers in frilly, foppish old clothing (Elizabethan?) and played piano casually. I couldn't remember all of the notes, but everyone was chatting and in good spirits. Just as I woke up, a friend invited me to "play board games with the adults".