Housewife

(2014)

The play Housewife allows you to enter the universe of a lonely woman that every single day awaits for her husband after finishing all her domestic chores, devoting herself to a waiting exercise, filling and exposing her innerworld, made of dreams, fears, fantasies, enabling the public to get immersed in her intimacy.

This woman is a housewife, she is just a housewife, she is still a housewife. Afterall she is a housewife. She could have been a lot of things, but the house took over and she stayed in her place, at home. But the house becomes a place of enunciation, and this woman speaks from her relationship with that place, thus shining a light on her position in the society order. She doesn’t hide it, she doesn’t regret it, but brings it to light, revealing its relationships, or rather its limits: “Only with this potato does she have a relationship./ The potato expects something from her./She has plans for the potato”. We need someone that has plans for the potato.

Text  Esther Gerritsen Direction and interpretation Raquel Castro Translation Raquel Castro and Pedro Gil Scenography José Capela Sound Pedro Costa Executive production Ana Oliveira Director’s assistant  Ana Bigotte Vieira Creative support Pedro Gil Light design Miguel Cruz Art residency Espaço do Tempo Sponsors Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation as part of the Support for the creation in cinema, theater and dance programme and Largo Residências Coproduction Barba Azul (Razões Pessoais) and Galeria Zé dos Bois

Premier  The 21st of June of 2014 at Galeria Zé dos Bois – Negócio