Maria Grazia Affinito // Eating Pasta off the Floor in Santa Cruz

Maria Grazia Affinito // Eating Pasta off the Floor

Eating Pasta off the Floor-West Coast Premiere Does your mother try to sell you off at the local supermarket? Don't get me wrong, I love my mother, although I was just committed for trying to shoot her. But maybe singing arias at full voice in the supermarket and offering to sell your daughter are just quaint Old World traditions. I hope that going back to my mom's home town in Italy will shed some light on our relationship. After all, it can't be worse than, "This is my daughter, she is blonde, blue eye, she look so American, you want to buy? I sell... I sell..." This is a story of growing up in an immigrant poor family, plagued by violence and trauma, while facing the generational conflicts unique to mothers and their daughters. What some critics are saying about Maria Grazia Affinito: "Stunning...deeply talented...magical" JewishJournal.com "Maria...is particularly effective" San Francisco Chronicle "Maria...does wonders" The Independent Maria Grazia Affinito is a member of Actors' Equity Association from the San Francisco Bay Area. She has performed with various companies in the Bay Area and in several independent films. A sampling of her stage credits include Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream (San Francisco Shakespeare Festival), Ana in Displaced (Marin Theater Company), and Nancy in Gaslight (California Conservatory Theater). She has also worked with Willows Theater Company, Solano Repertory Company, Napa Valley Repertory Company, and Pacific Alliance Stage Company. Eating Pasta off the Floor was developed with David Ford at The Marsh in San Francisco. Excerpts from Eating Pasta off the Floor have been seen at Solo Sundays (SF), Monday Night Marsh (SF), Tell it On Tuesday at The Marsh (Berkeley), Words First (SF), and DIVAs Tell All (SF). warnings: Strong Language

Categories: Performing Arts

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