This seminal piece of performance art, created in 1980, was inspired by the still lives of Giorgio Morandi. It was sensed that certain of the Italian artist's arrangements of little boxes, vases and containers might be alluding to family groups posing for the camera. The Theatre of Mistakes scaled up these boxes and containers to larger household items (suitcases, chairs and wardrobes) that seemed more appropriate to the stage.

The company had pioneered the notion of being not acting in the 1970s, and its participants had already tried to 'become' each other in their performance GOING. In HOMAGE TO MORANDI the three performers attempt to 'become' pieces of furniture.

The little play that transpires generates a magical, if elusive, atmosphere aligned to metaphysical art. The trio rigorously persist with a quirky methodology that is both peculiar and amusing. The 'play-script' that was developed to accompany the performance accurately documents each move while making use of diagrams and apt illustrations. It thus becomes an artwork in its own right.