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Place where the action takes place:

 

The interior of a house. The area of ​​the house is delimited by a large circle of overhead light that at the same time gives us the idea of ​​a circus ring. Two overlapping spaces: A house and a circus ring. Two overlapping situations: everyday life and the circus ring. As if life were a stage and our lives were a show. The circus of life.

 

Situation

 

A woman performs small housework: cleans the bathroom, uncovers the tub with a drain plug, prepares a raw chicken to cook, puts on makeup to go out, dresses, undresses, takes a tub bath.

 

All the utensils used allow Pimpolina to imagine realities in which she transforms into someone different, to transcend the domestic space and take us to a wider world: her inner universe.

 

Housework is the pretext for the character to play with a series of common and current elements, which when used in a different way than usual, allow the construction of a humor based on the absurd and the visual gag.

 

The character permanently interacts with the audience, either through eye contact and complicity through the gaze, or direct contact in the moments when Pimpolina comes down from the stage towards the audience.

Throughout the play the character moves between two worlds, between the real and the imaginary. Objects come to life and become characters.

 

All this creates a metaphor that tells us about the borders between the real and the imaginary. That tells us about the enormous wealth that hides behind the simplest things in life. A metaphor that tells us about all the universes that are inside us, waiting to emerge and manifest outside.

 

Finally, and contrary to what happens in the real world, in  Pimpolina’s world  fantasy triumphs over reality: The air leaks through a window and the shower curtain inflates. Pushed by the wind, the tub glides like a sailboat over the stage. The siren of a ship is heard. Her fantasy materializes: she sets off on the boat of her imagination and disappears paddling with a pair of pipe openers.

 

The live musical improvisation and the sound effects that the musician performs, enhance the situations in a kind of narration parallel to the actions of Pimpolina.

 

In the mind of the spectator, the music completes the meaning of the actions. Sounds help create mental associations that complete the meaning of actions and the emotions that arise from them. The support of the work is the clown technique, directed at all times to the metaphorization of reality and the search for a meaning that goes beyond the visible, beyond the obvious. Being a silent spectacle, great importance is given to the visual through the composition of images that are highly attractive to the eye of the beholder.