2023 Special Events
Stories of Eggs and Flour
by and with Gaia Mencagli
Friday and Saturday, November 10 & 11, 2023
Doors at 7 pm / Show at 7:30 pm
Venue: St. Croix Festival Theatre Franklin Square Black Box - 125 N. Washington St. St. Croix Falls, WI 54024
Length: 90 minutes; with intermission
Door Policy: no age restrictions / all ages venue
Price: Free Will Donation (all donations go towards Festival Theatre)
The seed for “Stories of Eggs and Flour,” an original solo show by and with Gaia Mencagli, was planted in 2018 during a storytelling project, and back then it was called Nonna Rosa. When the world shut down in spring 2020 and we were all forced into isolation, Rosa started making pasta again, again, and again until she found her way to an audience on the 13th of December 2021.
This special solo show is a free-will donation event with all donations going towards St. Croix Festival Theatre. If reserving your tickets online, please consider making a donation towards the theatre during your checkout, thanks so much for your generosity!
Thanks to eggs, flour, and an apron, Rosa tastes one more time the scent of her life. She travels in time, and the space around her transforms. Between handfuls of flour, Rosa relieves some of the most significant moments of her life, accompanied by music, objects, and people from that time. She goes through the times of the second world war and those of a child in the house of rich people. A moment later she is a mature woman in the countryside, then a young lover, and finally she becomes the grandmother, Nonna Rosa. All this while making fettuccine.
This event is presented on the oiicchicago.esteri.it/en/ccasion of the 8th edition of the Week of Italian Cuisine in the World, by the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago (https://iicchicago.esteri.it/en/), in collaboration with St. Croix Festival Theatre. The Week of Italian Cuisine in the World is a yearly initiative promoted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The theme selected in 2023 is "Dining with the Italian cuisine: well-being with taste.”
Doors at 7 pm / Show at 7:30 pm
Venue: St. Croix Festival Theatre Franklin Square Black Box - 125 N. Washington St. St. Croix Falls, WI 54024
Length: 90 minutes; with intermission
Door Policy: no age restrictions / all ages venue
Price: Free Will Donation (all donations go towards Festival Theatre)
The seed for “Stories of Eggs and Flour,” an original solo show by and with Gaia Mencagli, was planted in 2018 during a storytelling project, and back then it was called Nonna Rosa. When the world shut down in spring 2020 and we were all forced into isolation, Rosa started making pasta again, again, and again until she found her way to an audience on the 13th of December 2021.
This special solo show is a free-will donation event with all donations going towards St. Croix Festival Theatre. If reserving your tickets online, please consider making a donation towards the theatre during your checkout, thanks so much for your generosity!
Thanks to eggs, flour, and an apron, Rosa tastes one more time the scent of her life. She travels in time, and the space around her transforms. Between handfuls of flour, Rosa relieves some of the most significant moments of her life, accompanied by music, objects, and people from that time. She goes through the times of the second world war and those of a child in the house of rich people. A moment later she is a mature woman in the countryside, then a young lover, and finally she becomes the grandmother, Nonna Rosa. All this while making fettuccine.
This event is presented on the oiicchicago.esteri.it/en/ccasion of the 8th edition of the Week of Italian Cuisine in the World, by the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago (https://iicchicago.esteri.it/en/), in collaboration with St. Croix Festival Theatre. The Week of Italian Cuisine in the World is a yearly initiative promoted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The theme selected in 2023 is "Dining with the Italian cuisine: well-being with taste.”