America Oggi - 1st november 2018
BROOKLYN /
ON STAGE AT THE FIAO CENTER Ç A Fantasiusa
Woman È BY STEFANO MARIA PALMITESSA
The "intimate drama" of Eleonora
NEW YORK. Sicilian actress
Eleonora Micali speaks to
me rattling off words, without haste. The text,
"A Fantasiusa Woman", needs
no acceleration. It is based on
fragments of life, brief emotions,
tiny stories, memories, immersed in the traditional Sicilian irony, which knows how
to find even a light appearance in the tragic. The script is by the playwright
Stefano Maria Palmitessa, who
is also the director of the show.
Eleonora Micali
brought the text anywhere
in Italy, dressed in black. Saturday 10 November will
also be the stage of the new F.I.A.O. Brooklyn.
"A Fantasiusa woman - a nonologist"
encompasses the tribulations
and domestic anecdotes of a
Sicilian farming family. We always
smile, we smile at dialectal expressions,
but also at grandmothers who have difficulty
with the modern language. Sometimes the viewer is guided
THE "Sicilian"
"It
is creativity, bloodyness, it is the proverbial sympathy combined with a note of madness of our people"
given to the confines of cabaret, almost always in the world of fragile family piscologia.Micali does
not hide its total association
with the text: "The Sicilianness of colors, creativity, bloodyness, the proverbial sympathy combined with a note of madness
of our people, certainly they are appreciated and also embodied by my art. However, this does
not mean that I would have
a great desire that these values were not obscured
by that bitter resignation
in which, sometimes, we fall Ó.
In Palmitessa's monologue, the adventures told from the protagonist's point of view seem to have
very private connotations. Micali remembers
that, when the family members were
in the audience, it was taken "a strong emotion tinged with an understandable embarrassment that I read on the faces of my parents and my sisters. But
it does. The vividness of the descriptions that the author drew and the brilliance of the style he had chosen could only
be from my family members lived with a minimum of embarrassment
which, almost immediately overcome, melted into a warm
and stunned enthusiasm
". Also because "the text of Stefano Maria Palmitessa is born
from some of my ideas"
specifies the actress.
The finish
of one of the small paintings
of the work is formidable,
the dinner in the presence
of a black woman in a traditional family.
Although the show navigates within the southern
environment, the
There is no fear
of differences in understanding:
"The author has evaluated the aspects of language and vocabulary so as not
to have problems before any international
audience".
Micali brings the show to the
scene from (relatively) new town in New York. In the show there is an obvious
presence of a beloved man
and, from the point of view
of a Sicilian, it is interesting to know if she
herself has discovered differences in the relationship between the Italian man and that of New York:
"A question that I makes you blush!
I will give a superficial answer, so I don't risk
to upset my male audience. We say that
the Mediterranean have a greater cunning. That's enough. "Finally New York: how do you live New York as an actress? "I love this city! I love his people, Micali
continues the fervor of his activities even if sometimes
frantic, the electricity that is felt
in every street, in every alley, the
certainty of recognition of merit in the goals hoped for by its citizenship, the acceptance of which multi-ethnicity bears witness. When I compare the two words 'New' and 'York' printed on the postcard that depicted the Statue of Liberty in my
adolescent hands, and the dream come true of being able to perform
in the heart of one of the historic districts, I force a tear "I conclude" Micali.
"Una Donna Fantasiusa" by Stefano Maria Palmitessa
is played by Eleonora Micali, Saturday 10 November (7 pm) at the Centro F.I.A.O. (8711
18th Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11214). The acting
is in Italian and in Sicilian with the help of titles
in English. For tickets, the site is: www.fiaobrooklyn.org/unadonna-fantasiusa. Information: (718) 259-2828