The pink triangle at the University of Siena

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Remembrance Day So as not to forget

On January 27th at 5pm, Remembrance Day, a meeting/show dedicated to the theme of the deportation of homosexuals was held in Siena, at the Humanistic Center of the University of Siena in Via Fieravecchia 19, in collaboration with ANPI with the title: The pink triangle, by and with Altero Borghi directed by Serena Cesarini Sforza, with music by Gabriel Ruffini, and with the singer-songwriter Il Ragazzo del Campo Leonardo Breschi. Introduced by Professor Riccardo Putti, Representative of the University ANPI Club, with institutional greetings from Professor Alessandra Viviani and Professor Fabio Mugnaini, the show addressed the burning issue of homosexuality by narrating the events of a homosexual who is freed from a concentration camp and marked on his shirt with a pink triangle. The story begins during the Spanish war of 1936 where the protagonist has the opportunity to meet a young Sicilian, then escape to France, after the defeat of the Spanish popular front and the war in Europe, his arrest and liberation.

An intense acting
Passages punctuated by music, gestures and an intense acting by Altero Borghi, who moved the participants, especially in one of the culminating moments, in which he says several times: I can’t feel… due to physical violence carried out on him in the concentration camp. A unique and moving show that expanded the space of via Fieravecchia with an experience that deserves to be told and which narrates in detail the terrible period of those who had to face one of the most terrible moments in our history.
An intense acting enriched by a technique that the protagonist was able to make us forget to leave room for the human part, in particular the emotions of sadness and anger which never leave room for ambiguity but which, on the contrary, are interpreted in such a way as to allow the spectator to recognize them at first sight.

by Paola Dei