Directors Antonia Alonzo and Finlay Gall haven’t given themselves an easy job in taking on Attempts on Her Life: the original script of Crimp’s play is devoid of description or direction. Yet the creation of a play from the dialogue alone allows plenty of creativity – extensive use is made of video cameras, film projection and music to create a series of different sketches. The set is made to resemble that of a film set, with the characters walking on and off under the command of the film crew to perform each scene. While the original dialogue is unambiguous and evocative, in some scenes the style used to express it feels inappropriate, making it hard to follow either words or action.

At heart, this is a play satirising our 20th century desires to use media to superficially categorize, comprehend and interpret in an attempt to simplify everything and everyone. The play achieves its aim through the extensive use of such media tools, demonstrating just how easily we rely on them. The scenes directly attacking our obsessions are some of the funniest: these include the advert for a car which claims to protect the owner from dirty ethnic minorities and rape, and the bickering of culture vultures at a new art exhibit detailing the suicide attempts of the artist.

This production does not shy away from sexuality – another explicit theme in our modern world. It opens with a sex scene, while the penultimate sketch involves a topless porn star. Again, the audience is being challenged – is what they are seeing normal and acceptable, or exploitative and voyeuristic?