Nome proprio: Giuseppe Zigaina

Nome proprio: Giuseppe Zigaina - Monologue written by Eliana Rotella.

Told through the eyes of a contemporary narrator searching for meaning in art, identity, and memory, this play revisits the life of painter Giuseppe Zigaina and his profound connection with Pier Paolo Pasolini. As the narrator pieces together fragments from letters, artworks, interviews, and dreams, Zigaina and Pasolini re-emerge not as distant historical figures, but as vivid presences still echoing in today’s cultural and emotional landscape. Their relationship, marked by admiration, creative intimacy, and unspoken tensions, becomes a lens through which the narrator confronts their own questions about legacy, desire, and what it means to create in the shadow of loss.