Macaroni and Mal Occio by LuLu LoLo
Food, Faith, and Family - Growing up Italian American
Recapturing the love, laughter, and tears of her Italian-American childhood in East Harlem’s Little Italy, LuLu LoLo in a virtuoso performance—without intermission—and with inventive costume changes and songs—fills the stage with a non-stop parade of eleven family characters and vignettes such as Making Macaroni with Grandma LuLu, Great Aunt Lena Warding off the Evil Eye (Mal Occhio), The Seven Fishes of Christmas Eve Dinner and other scenes which take the audience back to the tenement life of her Italian immigrant grandparents. Theatergoers from all backgrounds will recognize themselves and their families in this poignant, exhilarating, and heartwarming show.
The first production of this play was performed in Williamsburgh at the Leonard Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library in 2002. For a review of Macaroni and Mal Occio by Arlene McKanic, Greenwich Village Gazette go to www.hoast.org/artists/artistsLL.htm - 14k –
LuLu LoLo is an actor/playwright who has written and performed five acclaimed one-person plays Off-Broadway highlighting her immigrant family heritage and the dramatic struggle of women in New York City’s past. LuLu has performed at Metropolitan Playhouse, NY; FAR (Field Artist Residency) Space; Hofstra University; Columbia University; Stony Brook University; Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo NYU; Garibaldi-Meucci Museum; Lower East Side Tenement Museum Theater; Raw Space, NY; 2004 Columbus, OH Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival; and Provincetown Fringe Festival, MA. LuLu is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work has been exhibited worldwide. The New York Times and The Village Voice have reviewed her work. LuLu was also a contestant on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.
