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Readymade Cabaret 2.0

Name: Readymade Cabaret 2.0
Start: 2020-12-06T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2020-12-06T00:00:00+00:00

Roll the Dice to Explore Chance, Choice, Fate, and Free Will in Readymade Cabaret 2.0

Hosted by This Is Not A Theatre Company

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Are our lives determined by chance, fate, or free will? What role does choice play? In This is Not a Theatre Company’s interactive online performance Readymade Cabaret 2.0, both the play’s scenes and the order in which they are performed are determined by the audience, who roll dice to choose which scenes we perform, and in what order. Based on Marcel Duchamp’s notions of readymade art and the philosophies of Dada as practiced by Tristan Tzara, Readymade Cabaret 2.0 speaks to the current COVID moment by asking whether our lives are determined by chance, fate, or free will. Character-based scenes are interspersed with computer-generated Dada poetry, computer-generated art, audience-created aleatory music, and Chances Dances created by audience prompts typed into the chat. Celebrate the beauty of chance encounters and make your own meaning!

No Proscenium's Review

My experience at Readymade Cabaret 2.0 was fulfilling and profound, but also ridiculous and inane. I left with an impression of complete understanding and complete questioning at the same time. But what more could I expect from a piece about nothing and everything at the same time?...Read More

Audience Role

Audience members will choose the scenes we perform and the order in which we perform them. Audiences will give prompts for Aleatory Compositions and Chance Dances.

Ages: All ages

Content Advisories

• No content advisories

Interaction Advisories

• No physical contact with performers

Mobility Advisories

• Event is wheelchair accessible

• No mobility advisories

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About This Is Not A Theatre Company

This Is Not a Theatre Company creates site-based, immersive, multi-sensory, participatory dance-theatre that can be eaten, touched, and smelled as well as seen and heard. This theatre is not something to passively consume, but to co-create. With each production, This Is Not a Theatre Company asks the audience to perceive the world in new ways, to empathize in new ways, and to practice creativity.