A shared stage: a kitchen. A big table in the centre. All around, there are work tables, ovens, pots, burners, cutting boards, rolling pins.
Paola, Stefano and Maurizio welcome guests, make them sit and set the table.
«For us, it is always very nice to have friends for lunch or dinner, but it is not easy. There are always so many things to do, and the time is running...» Stefano says.
So the dinner (or lunch) starts and the actors, serving wine, water, bread, cheese, vegetables and tagliatelle, tell their stories: life, theatre, agriculture, fear of flying, friends and boars. Personal experiences, little, apparently unimportant failures, concerns through our present.
They tell it with levity, without overdramatising, with a playful mind instead.
Inside the Ariette's kitchen-theatre, they try to create a community, which is maybe possible as far as the show goes on.
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