CageFest

MusiCircus by John Cage

September 16 1989, Cowell Theater, San Francisco

realized and directed by Randall Packer

performed by Judith Bettina, Rae Imamura, Gordon Mumma, Michael Orland, Evan Ziporyn, John Bischoff, Chris Brown, Tim Perkis, Richard Zvonar, Bill Maginnis, Ramon Sender, Ken Atchley, Don Baker, William Winant, Chris Maher, Barney Jones

Theatre is obligatory eventually because it resembles life more closely than the other arts do, requiring for its appreciation the use of both eyes and ears, space and time.

I agree that technology opens up new possibilities to us but I think that finally what we are dealing with is what we were always dealing with, namely, mind.

But my music was already theater. And theater is only another word for designating life.

– John Cage