Daddy, I’ve Seen This Piece Six Times Before and I Still Don’t Know Why They’re Hurting Each Other

Award-winning 1998 dance drama created by Robyn Orlin. Staged in various venues in South Africa, Europe and the USA.

Also written: daddy, i've seen this piece six times before and i still don't know why they're hurting each other

Subject
Six performers fight over the same space while they wait for their director to arrive for a performance. The performers wait in panic five minutes before the show, but the director has not arrived. Their waiting becomes the background against which a collage of dances are set.

Performance history in South Africa
Premiered in 1998 at the FNB Dance Umbrella in Johannesburg, directed and choreographed by Robyn Orlin, with Gerard Bester, Nico Moremi, Toni Morkel, Pule Molebatsi, Neli Xaba and Dudu Yende.

Staged in The Market Theatre in September 2000 and in April 2012, directed and choreographed by Robyn Orlin.

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