In 2006 the group Transquinquennal received a commission to create a theatre piece where a visual artwork would speak to the audience, like a character in a play. The result of this experiment was ‘Vernissage I', where the sculpture ‘Untitled (ping pong table)' by Richard Venlet never said a word on stage. Since then we have seen other artworks like ‘Drama Queens' by Elmgreen and Dragset, or ‘The Beggar' by Dora García, where speaking sculptures address boldly the audience. So a new experiment was unavoidable. ‘Games People Play' is a new production where the same idea is elaborated upon. Here the original ‘Untitled (ping pong table)' has a mythical status and only presents itself to the audience in the form of a ghost. Undisturbed, ping pong players keep playing on it, while a group of people (a psychiatrist, a gorgeous interviewer, some unidentified deranged people) discuss about the status of that table now.

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