The image of Ezra Pound in a cage is an emblematic image that generates refractions with the biography of the poet, who spent a long time in psychiatric confinement, while at the same time referencing the ideological incrustation and interference that have tied him to a controversial infamy. 
On the stage, Mariano Rigillo, directed by Leonardo Petrillo – who also wrote the dramaturgy – frames the image of Pound in the purity of art and his poetry. The play debuted at the Teatro Goldoni in Venice, the city in which the American poet is buried. Venice was a place of beauty, nostalgia and freedom for Pound, a leading figure in that refined Venetian intellectual circle that saw dialogue with men and women of international culture, such as Peggy Guggenheim or Ernest Hemingway. 
Almost all of The Cantos, evoked on the stage by Anna Teresa Rossini, is steeped in the visions and the waters of Venice, his last, beloved, home.