John Cage And Teeny Duchamp Play Chess In Front Of A Live Audience

John Cage And Teeny Duchamp Play Chess In Front Of A Live Audience

at Old Fire Station, Oxford
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John Cage And Teeny Duchamp Play Chess In Front Of A Live Audience

A work of aesthetic mourning in 64 acts which uses, as its starting point, John Cage's Reunion of 1968.

The original work consisted of the composer, Cage, playing chess with the Dadaist artist and chess master Marcel Duchamp and Duchamp's wife, Teeny, in front of a live audience in Toronto; the chessboard being wired for sound. Dragging on into the early hours of the morning the event was abandoned: the audience had dwindled to nothing, the one bottle of wine that had been provided had been drunk and Marcel Duchamp had fallen asleep.

John cage and Teeny Duchamp Play Chess in front of a Live Audience incorporates drama, music, sound art, opera, visual art and screwball comedy; part theatre, part performance art.

Part of Oxford Fringe 2015.

Rated Excellent

Old Fire Station

40 George Street
Oxford
OX1 2AQ

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Old Fire Station

40 George Street
Oxford
OX1 2AQ

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