temporale

{a lesbian tragedy}

2025

The study of meteorology, like many other things, only leads to despair.
(J. W. Goethe)

Reality is broken. Bodies collapsing, falling apart, dissolving into smoke, quivering – fluids condensing, gelatinous and sticky presences generating constant glitches, disturbances/disruptions/perturbations. Mists, clouds, haze, vapours.
“temporale”: in italian, concerning time, historical or chronological; in meteorology, it indicates bad weather, a violent atmospheric perturbation. One after another, the backrooms unfold: saturated yellow spaces, damp carpeting, wallpaper and flashing neon lights – faulty images coming from the network, quasi-places that do not exist. Something happened in these endlessly repeated yellow rooms, but we don’t know what. There is a sense of disorientation, unfamiliarity, like entering the back of the world.

The dramaturgy combines meteorologies, atmospheres conceived as spatialised emotions and affective states that activate intense climatic changes (and vice versa). "temporale" moves through the unrest of the present time. Space fills with anguish, wonder, uncontrollable laughter, melancholy and desolation — a slow pulverization of the world.

The “Sonnets of Despair” issue the weather reports of our perturbations. After all, “a lesbian tragedy”. To speak of how we are, one must write with clouds and gaseous matter. The inside is outside, the outside is inside.

Credits

by Silvia Calderoni & Ilenia Caleo
with Silvia Calderoni, Ilenia Caleo, Ondina Quadri, Francesca Turrini
sound atmospheres Martina Ruggeri
Short Sonnets of Despair by Ilenia Caleo, ispired by The Shape of Clouds by J. W. Goethe
translation Paola Bono
care and production management Elisa Bartolucci

residencies: PARC Firenze; BASE Milano; Centrale Fies Residency (with the support of Passo Nord); Atelier Sì - Bologna, Lavanderia a Vapore Torino, Istituto di Cultura italiano, Paris; in collaboration with AMAT and Comune di Pesaro per RAM - Residenze Artistiche Marchigiane
co-productions: VIELNURVIEL (Ghent); Motus Vague; Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT / Teatro Nazionale
thanks to: Alessandra Indolfi, Roberta Indolfi, Paola Granato, Eva Bruno, Vilma Carlini, Ulisse Poggioni

2025 | duration 60'

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press

Paola Granato, A matter of ambience | NERO, 14 April 2026: https://www.neroeditions.com/a-matter-of-ambience/

Emanuela Mirabelli, E se il cambiamento climatico fosse anche lo specchio di come stiamo sotto la pelle? | Marie Claire, Aprile 2026: https://www.marieclaire.it/lifestyle/coolmix/a71025686/temporale-lesbian-tragedy-spettacolo-teatro/

Paolo Ruffini, "temporale" a Roma | Limina Teatri, Aprile 2026: https://www.liminateatri.it/temporale-a-roma-di-paolo-ruffini/

Cristiano Seganfreddo | Flash Art, Ottobre 2025: https://flash---art.it/2025/10/temporale-a-lesbian-tragedy/#

Matteo Valentini | Teatro e Critica, Agosto 2025: https://www.teatroecritica.net/2025/08/temporale-di-silvia-calderoni-e-ilenia-caleo/

Lucrezia Ercolani, Silvia Calderoni, Ilenia Caleo: stanze collettive | Il Manifesto, Agosto 2025 (intervista): https://ilmanifesto.it/silvia-calderoni-ilenia-caleo-stanze-collettive

Beatrice Zippo, Un pezzo caleidoscopio chiamato amore | Cirano Post, Dicembre 2025: https://www.ciranopost.com/2025/12/05/un-pazzo-caleidoscopio-che-si-chiama-amore-temporale-a-lesbian-tragedy-di-e-con-silvia-calderoni-e-ilenia-caleo-tuona-sul-teatro-abeliano-per-il-big-bari-international-g/

Anna Bandettini, Nuvole di fumo e temporali dentro l'anima | La Repubblica, Ottobre 2025: https://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/teatro-danza/2025/10/04/news/nuvole_di_fumo_e_temporali_interiori_la_recensione-424888554/

Emanuela Zanon, Not yet: il grido di resistenza del teatro indipendente a Santarcangelo Festival 2025 | Juliet, Luglio 2025: https://www.juliet-artmagazine.com/not-yet-il-grido-di-resistenza-del-teatro-indipendente-a-santarcangelo-festival-2025/