A woman killed by her husband continues to live. Every evening, he smashes her head in, and every morning she gets up, cleans, cooks, cares, and suffers the violence and the indifference of those around her. In the wake of the success of Re Chicchinella, Emma Dante returns to the Piccolo with the horrific rituality of a femicide.
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Teatro Grassi
One day, within a family, the habitual violence inflicted by a husband on his wife becomes femicide. The man kills her by smashing her head in with an iron. The woman lies dead on the ground, but her death is not enough to convince anyone.
Like an imprisoned angel of the hearth, the woman is unable to escape a destiny of death and abuse, and will be forced to get up and return to her same old routine, cleaning the house, doing the housework, cooking for her husband and son, and taking care of her elderly mother-in-law.
Every morning, the family finds her dead but refuses to believe it. Every morning, she gets up again, opens the coffee pot, which has been screwed too tightly, and goes back to suffering her husband’s violence, her son’s depression, and the helplessness of her mother-in-law, who indulges her brutal and despotic son instead of condemning him. Every evening the wife dies again, like a hellish ring of eternal punishment. In the dim light of a sleeping household, the angel flaps her dressing gown and tries to take flight, but the only concession granted her is the intention to fly.
The play contains explicit language and scenes of violence
The performances on 15, 16, 22, 23, 29 and 30 November are surtitled in English and Italian
Surtitles by Prescott Studio
Duration: the play is currently in production
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One day, within a family, the habitual violence inflicted by a husband on his wife becomes femicide. The man kills her by smashing her head in with an iron. The woman lies dead on the ground, but her death is not enough to convince anyone.
Like an imprisoned angel of the hearth, the woman is unable to escape a destiny of death and abuse, and will be forced to get up and return to her same old routine, cleaning the house, doing the housework, cooking for her husband and son, and taking care of her elderly mother-in-law.
Every morning, the family finds her dead but refuses to believe it. Every morning, she gets up again, opens the coffee pot, which has been screwed too tightly, and goes back to suffering her husband’s violence, her son’s depression, and the helplessness of her mother-in-law, who indulges her brutal and despotic son instead of condemning him. Every evening the wife dies again, like a hellish ring of eternal punishment. In the dim light of a sleeping household, the angel flaps her dressing gown and tries to take flight, but the only concession granted her is the intention to fly.
The play contains explicit language and scenes of violence
The performances on 15, 16, 22, 23, 29 and 30 November are surtitled in English and Italian
Surtitles by Prescott Studio
Duration: the play is currently in production
Credits
L’angelo del focolare
PREMIERE
written and directed by Emma Dante
props and costumes by Emma Dante
lighting Cristian Zucaro
with David Leone, Giuditta Perriera, Ivano Picciallo, Leonarda Saffi
coordination and distribution Aldo Miguel Grompone, Rome
organisation Daniela Gusmano
co-produced by Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa, Teatro di Napoli – Teatro Nazionale, Châteauvallon-Liberté, scène nationale, Les Célestins, Théâtre de Lyon, La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, Scène Nationale d’ALBI-Tarn, Le Cratère, Scène nationale Alès, L'Estive, scène nationale de Foix et de l’Ariège, Théâtre + Cinéma Scène nationale Grand Narbonne, Théâtre de l’Archipel, scène nationale de Perpignan, Théâtre Molière, Sète scène nationale archipel de Thau, Le Parvis, scène nationale Tarbes-Pyrénées, Compagnia Sud Costa Occidentale, Carnezzeria
The play contains explicit language and scenes of violence
The performances on 15, 16, 22, 23, 29 and 30 November are surtitled in English and Italian
Surtitles by Prescott Studio
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Category of performance: Co-production
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