“It’s difficult you know to find words now to say you know, like it’s difficult because you know like she is the victim you know and I am the one who did it, so it is already been done you know. I can’t really say sorry you know because that would be too easy”
(Jeffrey; recorded Sept 2014)
Anne Meets Jeffrey is a new work conceptualised and created by Emma Berentsen in collaboration with Tiffany Murphy in which they investigate the rape case of ‘Anne’ and a meeting she had seven years after the event with ‘Jeffrey’, her perpetrator.
One of us was directly affected by the story, another was invited to collaborate on the retelling of it. Our work explores the challenges posed by witnessing and remembering, especially in the face of trauma through live performance, video and sound. Anne Meets Jeffrey is an intimate and engaged performance about the fear of dying, losing dignity and reclaiming power by facing your biggest fear.
Dramaturgical advice: Raz Weiner
With many thanks to Camden People’s Theatre, the Unicorn Theatre, London and Goldsmiths, University of London.
Anne meets Jeffrey will be programmed in other venues in 2018, keep an eye on this page for future information. Anne meets Jeffrey was part of the Autumn 2017 season at Camden People’s Theatre
