Why do people play games? Why do people watch people playing games? What defines a game as game? Is it a set of rules to be shared by all participants? Is it the act of winning or losing? Is it by marking the field? Is it the way you prepare yourself or celebrate afterwards? Or is it how you perform in front of an audience?

Seven players gather for the purpose of overcoming unnecessary obstacles. They dwell in a thick environment of sofa emotionality, blown-up megalomania, grand orchestral landscapes, aimless efforts, shameless hedonism and self inflicted pseudo-competitivity. In The Game Game real stories and prefabricated emotions clash in an unpredictable set of seemingly arbitrary rules. The participants linger in a sphere between the generic and the personalized.

CONCEPT The Loose Collective PERFORMANCE Guenther Berger, Alex Deutinger, Deborah Hazler, Thomas Kasebacher, Marta Navaridas, Stephan Sperlich, Teresa Vittucci SOUND DESIGN, COMPOSITION Guenther Berger, Stephan Sperlich KOSTÜME Hanna Hollmann LIGHT DESIGN Roman Streuselberger LIGHT TECHNICS Thomas Bergner SOUND ENGINEERING Stefan Ehgartner OUTSIDE EYE Guy Cools

A production by The Loose Collective in co-production with Kunstverein Archipelago, Performanceinitiative 22 and Tanzquartier Wien. Friendly supported by MA 7 – Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien, Stadt Graz Kultur, Kultur Land Steiermark, Bundeskanzleramt Österreich, D.ID dance-identity and CSD Bassano del Grappa.