{"id":1717,"date":"2023-11-06T12:40:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T18:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iicchicago.esteri.it\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2023-11-06T12:40:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T18:40:37","slug":"article-stories-of-eggs-and-flour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iicchicago.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dall_istituto\/2023\/11\/article-stories-of-eggs-and-flour\/","title":{"rendered":"Article \/ Stories of Eggs and Flour"},"content":{"rendered":"

November 11, 2023. Written by Gaia Mencagli<\/em><\/p>\n

“Stories of Eggs and Flour”<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is a one-woman show that portrays the life of Rosa Falleri Mencagli. Rosa was my grandmother, my father’s mother, Gino’s wife, a young girl, but beyond all that, she was an Italian woman who lived in the 20th century in central Italy, and when I met her in her latest years, she had many stories to tell.<\/p>\n

The stories that I have decided to tell in “Stories of Eggs and Flour”<\/em>\u00a0are just a few of the many, and I chose them because I wanted to try to imagine what it was like to grow up in the twenties in Italy as an orphan with two younger sisters and an older one that does not care about you.<\/p>\n

Rosa was a great cook, and so I decided to interpret her while making pasta on stage. I do the whole process from start to end, but the stories that are told appear in a non-linear fashion. Therefore, I created a soundtrack with old Italian TV and Radio clips to help the audience navigate through the several jumps in time and space. Whether or not you are going to see the show, I will share some of these old tunes with you, and I am sure that once you hear them, you will start traveling back in time.<\/p>\n

1928. “Tango delle capinere”<\/strong> A famous song written by Cesare Andrea Bixio and composed by Bixio Cherubini: Gabr\u00e8 – Il Tango delle Capinere<\/a><\/p>\n

Roma, 6 October 1924, 9 p.m.<\/strong> The first Italian radio transmission was on air, celebrated\u00a0with a concert with music by Joseph Haydn:\u00a0Inizio trasmissioni radio in Italia<\/a><\/p>\n

1932. A clip from the movie “Gli uomini che mascalzoni”<\/em>\u2026<\/strong> Where a young Vittorio De Sica\u00a0sings and dances to the tunes of “Parlami d’amore Mariu”<\/strong><\/em>:\u00a0Vittorio De Sica – Parlami d’amore Mari\u00f9 (1932)<\/a><\/p>\n

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I wanted to imagine her relationship with her fianc\u00e9 and then husband through difficult times. I wanted to imagine what it was like for her to hold her child while trying to escape one of the many bombings during the Second World War.<\/p>\n

Roma, 23 October 1942.<\/strong>\u00a0The annual celebration of the foundation of Fasci Italiani di Combattimento,\u00a0the Italian Fascist party, created by Benito Mussolini in 1919:\u00a0Annuale Fondazione dei Fasci<\/a><\/p>\n

Rome, 4 October 1941.<\/strong>\u00a0The speech of Mussolini, Italian dictator and founder of Fascismo,\u00a0after the first year of taking part in the Second World War:\u00a0Discorso di Mussolini<\/a><\/p>\n

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I also wanted to share the love\u00a0and care that she had for her family and that twinkle in her eyes that went away only when\u00a0she was gone.<\/p>\n

There was a couch at the entrance of her home, and when I opened the door to her\u00a0apartment, I would often find her there, waiting for somebody to come and visit. If I sat close\u00a0to her, she would then tell me about the first time she met the love of her life, my\u00a0grandfather, whom I never had the chance to meet. Other times, I would find her in the kitchen\u00a0making some ravioli, or fettuccine, or gnocchi, or cooked apples for an afternoon snack. On\u00a0a sunny day, she would sit outside on the balcony, keeping an eye on us kids playing in the\u00a0street.<\/p>\n

The sixties TV commercials<\/strong>:\u00a0E Adesso Pubblicit\u00e0 Spot<\/a><\/p>\n

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Gaia Mencagli\u00a0<\/strong>is an Italian-Danish theater artist. She completed her degree at Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre in California in 2018 and previously studied in Denmark and Italy. From 2018 to 2020, she lived in Minneapolis, where she worked as an actor and an educator. She then moved back to Italy and established herself in Trieste. There, she performed her solo shows “Stories of Eggs and Flou<\/em>r” and “It’s\u00a0Red!<\/em>” at Hangar Teatri and taught theater to kids, teenagers, and adults. She is currently working as a puppeteer at the Rossetti Theatre with the\u00a0Marionette di Podrecca\u00a0while cultivating independent projects of her own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"November 11, 2023. Written by Gaia Mencagli “Stories of Eggs and Flour”\u00a0is a one-woman show that portrays the life of Rosa Falleri Mencagli. Rosa was my grandmother, my father’s mother, Gino’s wife, a young girl, but beyond all that, she was an Italian woman who lived in the 20th century in central Italy, and when […]","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iicchicago.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iicchicago.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iicchicago.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iicchicago.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iicchicago.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iicchicago.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"https:\/\/iicchicago.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iicchicago.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iicchicago.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iicchicago.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}