It's cabaret, straight and spoofed; it's performance art; it's a tour-de-force for a single performer, abetted at times by two dancers and backed by five musicians.
It begins with a single performer "teaching" another performer the first sentence, or movement sequence.
"Just Jazz" often devoted an entire show to a single performer or ensemble.
The original work had a single performer standing in front of a screen.
A single performer playing a dozen different characters, switching accents and body language and, practically, souls?
Can you imagine sitting through an evening of Prokofiev's or Scriabin's complete sonatas played by a single performer?
But the dual role places an huge amount of strain on a single performer, however natural he makes it appear.
In a house on Bogside in Derry, a single performer in a kitchen evoked memories of brutal military raids.
It entails much more than a single performer or group of performers, their instruments, and a hall in which to play.
He represented the blues as Louis Armstrong once represented jazz, a single performer who could nevertheless stand, and speak, for the whole genre.
