Performance returns

pp. 95-133

in: Eirini Kartsaki, Repetition in performance, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Abstract

This chapter uses Lone Twin Theatre's production Daniel Hit by a Train (2008) to discuss what emerges as a significant function of repetition, the process of returning to it across time. Certain types of performance that use repetition in movement, speech, or structure seem to invite us to go back to them in order to consider how repetition has changed over time, but also how we have changed in relation to repetition. Meaning in this case is contingent, and it is produced in each encounter with repetition. Lone Twin Theatre's work stages a particular way of looking and looking again. It seems to invite a return to it, and to make the viewer aware of the types of repetition that take place within it, saying something about these repetitions and demanding the viewer to say something too.