One day, within a family, the husband’s habitual violence towards his wife escalates into a femicide. The man kills her by smashing her head with an iron. The woman lies on the floor, dead, but her death is not enough: no one believes her. And so the woman, like the angel of the hearth in whose grotesque image she finds herself trapped, is forced to get up and return to the same routine: cleaning the house, doing the housework, preparing meals for her son and husband, and looking after her elderly mother-in-law. Every morning, her family find her dead and do not believe her. Every morning she gets up again, opens the moka pot, which is wound too tight, and begins once more to endure her husband’s violence, her son’s depression, and her mother-in-law’s helplessness — who, instead of condemning her brutal and despotic son, pities him. Every evening the wife dies again, as if in a circle of hell where the torment never ends. In the dim light of a sleeping house, the angel shakes the hem of her dressing gown and tries to fly, but she is granted only the intention to fly.
co-production: Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa / Teatro di Napoli – Teatro Nazionale / Châteauvallon-Liberté Scène Nationale / Les Célestins Théâtre de Lyon / Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand / La Scène Nationale d’ALBI-Tarn / Le Cratère, Scène Nationale d’Alès en Cévennes / 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, National Theatre of Tarbes Pyrénées / Compagnia Sud Costa Occidentale / Carnezzeria