Theatre review: Fewer Emergencies at Royal Court Theatre Upstairs. Martin Crimp's most famous play is Attempts on her Life.
His latest, hour-long piece could easily have been christened More Attempts on her Life. Fewer Emergencies consists of three short dramas that take his audience into a sinister world that brings to mind the plays of such writers as Caryl Churchill, Wallace Shawn and the late Sarah Kane. The last analogy may not be entirely surprising since the director is James Macdonald who has directed three Kane plays at the Royal Court although not the one that this most closely resembles, Crave. For most of the time, three actors languidly deliver lines which together build up to portray a series of events that may be linked.
In the first piece, entitled Whole Blue Sky, they sit in Tom Pye's white box theatre (even the audience's seats are covered in white cloth) and gradually reveal a tale of an unhappy marriage from the wife's side. Martin Crimp. Evaluation. Martin Crimp Background.