To help piece together our fractured memories, there's a loose chronology to the weekend.
Three dancers are gliding through the subtle push-pull of his new piece called "Caverns," which represents a woman's fractured memories of love.
Later, he describes Jocelin's fractured memories in terms of narrative: "they were like sentences from a story, which though they left great gaps, still told enough".
In Not I, a disembodied female voice of some 70 years, speaks of herself in third person, recalling her fractured memories in a whirlwind stream-of-consciousness.
In creating a fictitious past, Mr. Ellis is able to reclaim a life that was unfairly taken from him, creating a dream world of displaced and fractured memories.
Most actors have enough layers to explore with just one character in "Old Times," an enigmatic 1971 play about identity and fractured memories by Harold Pinter, the Nobel Prize winner best known for psychological chillers like the "The Homecoming" and "The Caretaker".
ALSO OUT THIS WEEK Set partly in Cornwall and partly in the futuristic Ether Institute, this is a game about helping a woman with dementia by diving into her fractured memories.
All Brown has to show for his plunge are fractured memories, aches and pains, and several tattoos, including a boxing kangaroo, which symbolizes Australian toughness, and flaming $100 bills to represent his inability to save money.
In Maud's confusion, the fractured memories of the earlier loss instil in her mind the belief that her modern-day friend, Elizabeth, has been the victim of a crime.
Oates does deploy some original twists and suggestions of ambiguity, assets that emerge most forcefully in "Smother," which is split between the fractured memories of Alva and the more collected viewpoint of her mother, Lydia, as she meets a pair of detectives in order to rebut Alva's allegations.
