Why We Return: Repetition and Remembrance in Elliot: A Soldier's Fugue.

The article focuses on the role of theatrical performance in revealing and processing intergenerational wartime trauma through memory and repetition. Topics include the use of musical and psychological "fugue" structures to illustrate overlapping soldier experiences, the function of theatre in transforming individual pain into collective memory, and the critique of heroism narratives that obscure the psychological consequences of war.