Our latest guest includes the return of Sam Smithson, who last year was telling us all about his show Taking A Love Pill At the End of the World.

This time around he is joined by Cameron Wilson, who together make up Not Quite Ready Productions. They are in full preparation to bring a fresh production of Martin Crimp's Attempts On Her Life to Hen and Chicken Theatre later in June. The play, first performed in 1997 at Royal Court Theatre, consists of seventeen seemingly unrelated scenes in which groups of people provide contradictory descriptions of an absent protagonist, a woman who is discussed as a terrorist, the daughter of grieving parents, an artist, and even a new car. 

The playtext doesn't assign lines to any specific character, meaning that there's a lot to unravel even before you reach rehersals. It also means a lot to unpick as we chat to Sam and Cameron to work out just why they wanted to take on what looks a highly ambitious piece of work, why they decided this time to work on an existing play and not new writing, and why it's a tough old world trying to be a writer!

Attempts on Her Life plays at Hen and Chickens Theatre from 10 to 14 June. Further information and bookings can be found here.