Looking for Pasolini

Looking for Pasolini is a contemporary performance written by Atticus Orsborn and directed by Ludovico Nolfi, exploring the poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini, a sharp writer and controversial Italian filmmaker.

Prophetic observer of capitalist society, he has always inspired profound conflict of admiration and hate. His life has been upstream and elusive to most people, as it was his death.

In 1975, Pasolini was found beaten to death on the coast near Rome. Forty years later, a group of young performers find inspiration in Pasolini's works, following the threads of his poetry.

This performance is in English with a few moments in Italian. It’s one of the events organised within the 15th Week of the Italian Language in the World, under the high patronage of the President of the Republic of Italy, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in London and La Dante in Cambridge.

Ludovico Nolfi, Italian actor and director from Rome, is now heading different projects in Cambridge and London, always working on looking for poetry and beauty in our lives.

Atticus Orsborn, British actor and writer, is an imaginative young artist with a real passion for playwriting for contemporary theatre.

Ars in Fieri is a newborn international theatre company based in Cambridge. Italian passion and experience head a troupe of multi cultural artists, bringing together an international approach to theatre where masks are stripped away and true expression is shared. It is a beautiful work in progress. It is art in progress. As in Latin: ars in fieri.