Luigi Lo Cascio - Pa'

The show Pa' at the Ambra Jovinelli Theatre, directed by Marco Tullio Giordana with Luigi Lo Cascio, was conceived and created starting from various autobiographical writings by Pier Paolo Pasolini. On stage, Lo Cascio, in the guise of the great Friulian writer, talks about himself, what he loves and what is important to him, brings to mind the figure of his mother, the death in his youth of his partisan brother killed by the Tito soldiers, or Casarsa in Friuli, his small homeland, or he recalls the Roman years with the villages and the boys. They are all places of Pasolini, but also periods or events of his life which, around the verses recited in Luigi Lo Cascio's monologue, are constructed during the performance through simple objects full of meaning.

The scenography of the show is the result of various artistic, cinematographic and literary suggestions born from the dialogue between director and set designer. The slope represents a pleasant hilly landscape surrounded by nature, where the lights represent fireflies, inhabiting the places of the Friuli countryside: the scene with which the show opens is in fact a childhood landscape then contaminated by garbage. The objects of everyday life gradually populate and accumulate on the performance scene, in a crescendo of waste that transforms into a sort of suspended landfill that floods the suburbs frequented by the poet in Rome.

All this is Pa', that vocative with which Pasolini called the kids from the suburbs. 

Photo credits: courtesy of Serena Pea