Play (is a) thing is a performance for actors and props, trying to focus on the utopian aspects that feed both, capitalist commodity fetish and child-like play. Performers, dressed like mannequins, play in a room wrapped in plastic, leaving their marks on toys and puppets made from plasticine. In an endlessly decelerated process of unboxing, the actors navigate desire, expectation and imagination as well as satisfaction, regret and disappointment.
Play (is a) thing was realized with the help of Bayern Innovativ and the production grant "Junge Kunst und neue Wege" and initially performed by Joseph Lanzinger, Denise Mathiesen & Alessia Pennavaria.