Pietro Giannini — STARMAN
About the event
Who is Leon Skum? The richest man in the world, a visionary genius, a controversial entrepreneur, a pioneer of space exploration and new technologies. But what really lies behind this myth? With STARMAN. The True Story of Leon Skum, Pietro Giannini stages a reconstruction of the life of a Leonardo in the age of Elon Musk, assembling fragments and traces that form a dark mosaic of the 21st century. From his childhood in South Africa to the building of the economic empire we know today, the piece unfolds through a vortex of testimonies and “barbecue-style” tableaux, a hybrid language contaminated by musicals, talk shows, space sagas, and the enigmatic presence of the robot Prometheus. A portrait between myth and spectacle, born from an intensive journey through American nonfiction and wide-ranging readings, the work explores the death of “fathers,” between boundless ambition and the ghosts of the past, in an attempt to understand how a man determined to change humanity’s destiny is formed—and what he ultimately becomes.