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THREE SISTERS IN SOUL: SAINT, SOLDIER, SEAMSTRESS A ONE-ACT PLAY Written and performed by LuLu LoLo Mother Cabrini: Saint of the Immigrants Anita Garibaldi: Soldier and Wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi Ester Meucci: Seamstress and Wife of Antonio Meucci

 

LuLu LoLo as Mother Cabrini backstage at Garibaldi-Meucci Museum. Photo: Dan Evans

THREE SISTERS IN SOUL: SAINT, SOLDIER, SEAMSTRESS is a one- act play that brings to life the stories of three heroic women: Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, who devoted her life to the Italian immigrants; the charismatic Anita (Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro da Silva di Garibaldi) Garibaldi who fought alongside her husband Giuseppe Garibaldi; and the frail, crippled Ester Meucci (costume designer) who endured the hardships of her husband Antonio Meucci's struggle to invent the telephone and his losing battle to prove that he was the true inventor of the telephone.

 

PERFORMANCE HISTORY

October 9, 17, & 13, 2004	Performed for Italian Heritage and Culture Month at the Garibaldi Meucci Museum, Staten Island, New York. In conjunction with this play and in honor of Italian Heritage and Culture Month, October 2004, LuLu LoLo curated an exhibition for the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum: WITH THESE OUR HANDS: The Artistry of the Early Italian Immigrants in New York City.

ARTICLES

Sciorra, Joseph (appendix coauthored with Stefania Taviano). "A Lived History under Scrutiny: Italian American Performance Art". Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture edited by Edvige Giunta and Kathleen Zamboni McCormick . The Modern American Language Association, NY 2010. pp 183-184, 189, 194-95.

 

 

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