CARLENTINI – The theatrical campaign of the Turi Ferro theater in Carlentini (SR), has scheduled an all-female American comedy written by Robert Harling, but revisited by the direction of Michela Andreozzi.
All the female characters were masterfully interpreted by an exceptional cast such as:
Tosca d ‘Aquino, RocíoMun֘os Morales, Emanuela Muni, Emy Bergamo, Martina Difonte and Giulia Weber.
Inside the set of a hairdressing salon, which cuts out the cross-section of a simple provincial reality,female figures rotate wearing the clothes of all kinds of women, each with their own weaknesses and strengths.
The strongly feminine note emphasizes the concept “Union is strength”, since women who, within that reality of the 80s, describe their positions and perplexities towards life, receive mutual support and affection. .
The various individual stories are intertwined through stories and casual outbursts, carried out in the armchair of that salon, which almost becomes “therapeutic”, because the strength of friendship and solidarity between women, represent a point of strength and shared courage for to recover from pain and disappointment.
In this gallery of real life, we find the enterprising woman who finally allows herself another chance for love after the death of her husband. The woman angry with the world who, on the contrary, suggests that she hates men, but in the end she too will give in, because Love is the engine of everything.
The common woman, who lends herself to gathering everyone’s thoughts and sad stories, almost offers herself as a shoulder to cry on. A young woman, simple, naive, very religious who sees in God the greatest comfort.
And then… a strong, determined woman with clear ideas who will shatter when she loses her only daughter because of an illness. The world of those women collapses all around her, because they will all be there to give comfort and courage to that woman who will struggle to recover, carrying a great burden within herself.
Each of them will understand that they can do it, and they will learn that the absence of a loved one must serve as a lesson, trying to find a teaching and a life message in their history.
From this life event told on the stage, they will all come out different, because each of them will have defended that role of woman who at times, so extraordinarily strong and intelligent, frightens the so-called “stronger sex” when confronted with the ” Steel Flowers “.
From the interview carried out by Katia Cava to each of the actresses, we will discover their comments and the analysis of the character they themselves played.
- Tosca d ‘Aquino: “The comedy was given, above all, a geographical connotation, since the women involved come from different places, with different accents and different problems. We find a thousand facets. The men in this piece make a bad impression, because they are confronted with “Steel Flowers” that do not need to be protected. In the face of the drama, the union between women gives the necessary strength to be reborn “.
2-Rocio Mun֘os Morales: “We find different lives in one life, women with different experiences, that unique moment for all of us, that pain that unites us, in that uniqueness we find the strength for the others.
We are all unique, we are special, we are a real strength: “Union is strength”.
3- Emy Bergamo: “By now I am very jealous of my salon, now I see that they are taking it apart and I feel a certain pain in my stomach. The character Tamara is the emotional part of the show, she is the most empathic, her salon collects everyone’s pains. Everyone lives their own drama and we can solve all these dramas in my salon”.
4- Emanuela Muni: “The passage in which she wants to be with a closed heart is beautiful, but in reality all her friends do not allow it and invite her to open her heart to a man. It is a show that speaks of inclusion, of love in general that solves everything.
5-Martina Difonte: “Stella is the youngest woman, full of life, perhaps she is the only one who believes that in the end everything takes its place. She leaves many messages of life, aimed at kindness and openness.
She herself will say… ”Everything will be fine. Life goes on”.
6- Giulia Weber: This show is a moment of art, and art must not teach anything, it must create doubts, it must not give answers, it must always place an awkward position. We are not pedagogues or teachers. Within this path, it must be said that the woman is so afraid, she has always been so afraid, because she is stronger and that is why she is subjected, beaten, castrated, led … because she radiates a strength, in spite of everything, because it has the sense of life inside. Even women who have not given birth carry this sense of life inside, because they have an eye different from men.
And in this place, each of them can be herself, because in their life each of them makes her husband or someone else, believe that she is something less, because the man will never accept to say “you are stronger, you are smarter … so we have to make them believe we are more fragile …
But how fragile… They are fragile !!
Watching this show, men should think that the woman in their lives allows them to believe they are better, and for this they should thank her … because they have true beauty next to them. ”
We thank the actresses of the show, for the sympathy and availability shown.
Confronting them was a growth and a moment of artistic and emotional formation.
In a few minutes, a pleasant, spontaneous and interesting atmosphere was created, simply because
“Steel Flowers ” they know how to do it with elegance and naturalness.
