Website: https://ertfvg.it/spettacoli/le-mondine-di-fossalon-e-della-bassa-friulana/
08.45 p.m
"Le Mondine" ideally concludes the trilogy of shows produced by Grado Teatro on ancient female trades that began with "Le Anciughere" (2019) and continued with "Le Tabacchine" (2022). It was a remarkable project effort for a small company like Grado Teatro, but it testifies how peripheral cultural realities can have an extraordinary importance in keeping alive the cultural and popular memory of some, maybe marginal, but surely fascinating events of the past. In the early decades of the 20th century, particularly after the First World War, some areas, such as Fossalon and the Bassa Friulana, were given over to rice cultivation, not only with the intention of finding a new product to trade, but also to try to reclaim marshy swamps and thus transform them into fertile habitable areas.
For some time, therefore, the 'mondariso' also appeared in our area: seasonal labourers who were forced to perform, bent over for hours in the sun, with their bare legs in the water, hard and demanding work, often poorly paid and with the risk of being harassed by their bosses. Many were forced into this strenuous work because, after the war, there was no man left in the family who could support them.
Although brought back to its historical setting, in this performance the part entrusted to singers and musicians will be pre-eminent, since, despite the harshness of the daily commitment in the rice paddies, the lively and politically committed songs of the rice-workers still represent an exceptional musical heritage of extreme interest today.
From an idea by Tullio Svettini
Directed by Giorgio Amodeo
Production: Grado Teatro
The show is included in the 2023/2024 Season of the Biagio Marin Auditorium and offered free of charge to subscribers.
For the rest of the public, single ticket € 5.