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.

Teatro delle Ariette was born in1996. Its story is revealed in the book: Teatro delle Ariette. La vita attorno a un tavolo (Teatro delle Ariette. A life around a table). One of their most famous play Teatro da mangiare? (Theatre to eat?) was performed over 1000 times. On April 8th 2017, the Deposito Attrezzi (tool storage) that had been built 18 years ago in the middle of the Ariette's fields, officially became a theatre.
In all these years, the Company has been looking for a strict dialogue on theatre, standing on the fringes, on that thin line separating theatre from life, fighting with the "form" of a play, trying to go beyond it, transforming life into an endless rehearsal of an impossible play.

<<We were lost and found. Today, the world came to us around the table, leading us to a place with no time and no space. Now it is time to start again, promising not to celebrate nor to lie. As if we were children.
We learned so many things in the last 20 years. We experience and confronted the form of language we've been using. As time goes by, we realized that something deep, simple and true is what matter the most.
Starting from zero means cleaning up our minds and our actions from incrustations to reach the pureness, the need and the strength of the reason why we perform, that is: wanting to share questions. So we dealt with the same form discovered and used for Teatro da mangiare? Transforming our Kitchen into a theatre and our Theatre into a kitchen. Since then, the society has changed as well as ourselves and the public. Everything changed, and in daily life it is very difficult to sit together around a table.
But empathy and evocativeness of staying around a table, put the actors and the audience in a very special condition.

The theatre allows evoking, building and living what it's disappearing. We keep asking theatre the strength and the beauty of being the expression of a community.
The more today's life makes us voyeurs and consumers, the more theatre might be seen as a consumers good. But we keep looking for the magic in the real, living meeting, in the shared ritual.

We could name our performances with dates, instead of names, as if we re-wrote the play every single time as a diary of our life.
We do not move according to "themes", but following "times". What happens to us and in the world is the content we deal with.
So today, speaking of little failures means thinking on occasions when we confronted with the laws of the world and lost. Those defeats haven't changed our souls: we keep living and acting according to our beliefs and, after the confusion following the first failures, we learned to lose.
Maybe this is why we became invincible.
To the world our failures are meaningless, well... for us too, since we continue to live, to fight , to cry and to laugh, to play and cultivate, to make bread and tagliatelle and we keep inviting friends and considering the audience as a group of different individuals instead of a single mass. >>.