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Fluxus Performance Bedtime Story - Next to the piano onstage is a small bedside table or cabinet, with a lamp on it. Next to the lamp is a childrens book. Two chairs are in the space lit by the piano. The lamp is on. This is the only light on the piano. Two performers enter through a door from the side of stage [lit from the other side - as if from the landing] carrying a large amount of paper. The door is left open. They place it on the piano and gradually fold it out, until it covers the piano (except the keyboard) like a duvet or blanket. Then they go round and tuck the piano in so to speak. The paper is all scores for children songs/lullabies/from music for children study books. The parents then take their seats by the keyboard. Player A - the one nearest the light passes the childrens book from the table/cabinet to the Player B who reads the story out loud to the piano. Player A sits watching the piano, smiling/stroking it gently like a child drifting off to sleep etc. They also bring the keyboard cover down slowly to suggest the eyelids of the child drooping. When the cover is completely shut, Player A watches the now sleeping piano, smiling. Eventually they touch Player B and point to the piano. Player B stops reading, smiles and passes the book back to Player A who places it back on the table/cabinet. Player A gently kisses the forehead of the piano and turns off the lamp. The two walk softly off stage, pausing at the door to look back proudly on the sleeping ...



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