[Between Text & Performance 3] Play-Reading Salon: Attempts on Her Life / The Eleventh Capital

“Attempts on Her Life” by Martin Crimp

Seventeen seemingly unrelated reports scrutinise a character named Anne who never appears on stage. She is perpetually absent—educated, cared for, consumed, skinned, slaughtered. The narrative structure of the play gradually unfolds, exposing how the hypocrisy of globalisation and consumerism dominate our understanding of social realities and individual destinies.

(Also featuring play-reading of excerpts from “Shoot / Get Treasure / Repeat - an Epic Cycle of Short Plays” by Mark Ravenhill, directed by Tang Ching-kin.)

Playwright: Martin Crimp (UK)

Director: Alex Tam

“The Eleventh Capital” by Alexandra Wood

Deeply influenced by Caryl Churchill, the groundbreaking work of Alexandra Wood, a post-80s emerging British playwright, draws from the true events of the capital relocation in Myanmar. The play resonates universally with its depiction of power dynamics where individual sacrifices are made for national greatness. People, governments, land, and homes, in a society moving forward in the name of "development", leave behind absurd and horrifying fragments of life with which we are all too familiar.

(Also featuring play-reading of excerpts from “Drunk Enough to Say I Love You” by Caryl Churchill, directed by Yan Pat-to.)

Playwright: Alexandra Wood (UK)

Director: Vee Leong

Date: 21-22/5, 28-29/5/2011

Venue: Cattle Depot Theatre