Actress strips naked again
Sep 18, 2003
PARIS - John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono watched on as dozens of strangers cut her clothes off piece by piece in a Paris theatre on Monday, leaving the artist on stage wearing nothing but her underwear.
PARIS - John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono watched on as dozens of strangers cut her clothes off piece by piece in a Paris theatre on Monday, leaving the artist on stage wearing nothing but her underwear.
The 70-year-old Ono, who accompanied her Beatle husband in numerous controversial anti-war campaigns including the ‘Bed-In for Peace’ against the Vietnam War, first performed her ‘Cut Piece’ show in 1964 in Japan as a protest for peace. At the end of the show then, she stood naked on stage.
Almost 40 years on, the slender artist again asked her audience to cut strips off her tight black top and long layered skirt, to send the cut-out pieces to a person they love.
“Never forget love,†Ono said as she sat down on a stool on the stage of Paris’ wood-panelled Ranelagh theatre.
The 70-year-old Ono, who accompanied her Beatle husband in numerous controversial anti-war campaigns including the ‘Bed-In for Peace’ against the Vietnam War, first performed her ‘Cut Piece’ show in 1964 in Japan as a protest for peace. At the end of the show then, she stood naked on stage.
Almost 40 years on, the slender artist again asked her audience to cut strips off her tight black top and long layered skirt, to send the cut-out pieces to a person they love.
“Never forget love,†Ono said as she sat down on a stool on the stage of Paris’ wood-panelled Ranelagh theatre.