Please join us for a workshop/performance/reading of a new play about Marcel Duchamp and his circle of friends in New York City c. 1918.

On the occasion of the exhibition Readymades at the Smith Gallery, we are pleased to present a new theatre piece compiled from fragments of dialogue spoken by Duchamp and his associates around the time he and Louise Norton submitted Fountain to an exhibition in New York. Duchamp invented the readymade, but he also had a theatrical side, especially in his guise as Rrose Sélavy. It is the underlying theatricality of the Duchamp circle that this theatrical collage attempts to capture.

This workshop performance is directed by Kim Selody from Presentation House Theatre and features actors from the theatre programs at Handsworth and Saint Thomas Aquinas Secondary Schools. Mr. Selody will play the role of the main narrator. Please join us for what we hope will not be a rare performance – the potential is there for the material to be further developed, so we anticipate that the play Marcel may be on Broadway in a few years.