November 12, 2021 - Arriverderci Cucina Italiana - Fountain Hills, Arizona

 

I visited with my friend, Peg.  We were on our way to the Taliesin West for the Southwest Shakespeare Company production of From Tidwell With Love.

We started off with the hard crust bread and a dipping oil loaded with minced parsley, oregano, rosemary and basil.  It had a really fresh taste to the spices…I hope I have identified all of them correctly.

 

Peg ordered the Orecchiette pasta, rapini, sausage, olive oil, garlic, red chili flakes and parmesan cheese.  She worried about the flakes.  Said it was way too hot but she like the Italian sausage and the broccoli.

 

I ordered the Pappardelle Bolognese – it was very good especially eating it with the hard crusted baguette. The flat, wide pasta was just perfect with the delicious homemade meat sauce.  It was red sauce though and not creamy Bolognese sauce which is what I love.

(I hate this when I rotate and save.  Yet it never is placed rotated.)

Arriverderci Cucina Italiana
12645 N. Saguaro Blvd #1
Fountain Hills, AZ 85268
(480) 816- 5895
Hours:  Sunday – Thursday 11:00 a.m. – 8:30 p.m.
             Friday- Saturday 11:00 a.m. – 9:30 p.m.

The play:

November 11- 14, 2021 is the premiere of the new play From Tidwell with Love by David Barker – a professor at the School of Music, Dance and Theater  - ASU – Tempe Campus

 “At a time of global racial, economic and health crises, producing enormous divisions among people, From Tidworth With Love is a new play that follows the romance of Bill Barker (a soldier in basic training near Baltimore, Maryland) and Mary Giambrone (a nursing student in Norristown, Pennsylvania) that eventually led to marriage, with World War II as the historical and aesthetic context. Bill Barker, my father, wrote hundreds of letters to Mary Giambrone, my mother, starting in September of 1941 after a blind date, continuing through Army basic training, deployment to Europe, and to the end of the war in 1945. This is a two-character romance based on the 93 letters that survived. 

 Ultimately From Tidworth With Love will honor Veterans of Foreign Wars, humanize the WWII experience, and educate a new generation that has little or no tangible connection to a global event in the 1940's that saved humanity from the ideologies and practices of Nazi Germany which are manifest today in racist, fascist and white supremacist groups.”   - David Barker

 A superb performance by Andy Cahoon and Mary Townsend – real-life husband and wife (I thought their kisses were so real.) who were also married in the midst of global unrest, in November 2020.

 We  both loved it…funny…emotional….historical.  It was after 10:00 p.m…when it ended so we didn’t stay for the Talk Back with David Barker…and I would have loved that I am sure.