Caliente

• Duration: 1 h
• France
• For all
• 445 vues

Cie Artonik

Caliente opens with seven cabins lined up on a trailer. In these cabins, each one two metres wide, seven housewives are just about to start their daily routine. The day begins, and they go about their usual occupations: clothes and make-up, washing, ironing, cooking. Each goes about her own business, oblivious to the voyeuristic gaze of the audience.
As the day goes on, their gestures paint a picture of their interior worlds, their little tics and habits and the sounds which punctuate their lives: the low hum of household appliances, the news bulletin from an Italian radio station, a few stray notes of accordion music, the plaintive call of a cello cutting through the noisome solitude…
As the temperature rises, defences are lowered and the characters begin to reveal themselves. From the mechanical nature of their daily routines to the stifled obsessions and fantasies which bubble beneath the surface, this show is an ode to the myriad hidden faces of the female experience.