Even this, though, is not a traditional memory play, with sharp stagecraft showing in the deployment of three different performers on stage at the same time - Maggie Smith, Frances de la Tour and Anastasia Hille in the first London version - to play a woman at different ages.
The latest instalment of this embarrassment of riches was the first concert of the Pollini Project - programmes curated by Maurizio Pollini that combine different performers and periods of music history, from the early romantics to the modernists.
In the end, Queer New World involved the contributions of 21 different performers with a wide-range of styles, including self-identified drag queens, drag kings, one cisgender female drag queen and various embodiments of drag artists.
The accompanying music video portrays Spears as a ringleader of a circus accompanied by different performers, and features scenes of Spears in different circus settings.
We saw Japanese drummers and all kinds of different performers.
While 12 different performers, including "one man of very small size, with a moustache" are due to play her in The Life And Death … with the aid of latex masks, Abramović herself has been cast in the most daunting role of all: as her own mother.
"He took 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' and he reinterpreted it in real time using a number of different performers," Spence said.
Organisation can be tricky, especially managing schedules of different performers.
You can see that when you talk to them: these two very different performers present the easy camaraderie of those who can finish one another's sentences.
Consequently, possible extensions of our study include the use of different robots as collaborative tools shared by several artists playing from different locations, with the robots sequentially moving and behaving according to the contribution of the different performers.
