Mimmo Cuticchio

Valentina Venturini (Università Rome III)

Ed. by Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.1: Italian Writing and Culture, 453-present.
Vol. editors: Carla Bregman (Independent Scholar - North America), Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

Dates

Born 30 Mar 1948
Activity 1971-ongoing

Places

Born in Italy
Active in Italy

Activities

Primary

Playwright / Dramatist
Puppeteer
Theatre actor
Theatre Director

Resources

Cuticchio's Works

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Mimmo Cuticchio is the most important contemporary exponent of the art of the

Cunto

(a nineteenth-century theatrical tradition that, making use of a particular narration technique, consists in the oral telling, in installments, of the events of the Paladins of France) and of

Opera dei Pupi

, declared by Unesco an “Intangible Heritage of Humanity”. Son of a puppeteer and direct heir of the two traditions, he was a profound innovator of both, capable, even today, of bringing new generations of spectators closer to them and guaranteeing them a future.

Born in Gela (CL) in 1948 on the stage of his father’s theatre, Mimmo grew up in a family of puppeteers in Palermo: his grandfather (Girolamo Cuticchio, 1888-1960) ran a puppet theatre and hired puppeteers; his father, Giacomo (Palermo,

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Citation: Venturini, Valentina. "Mimmo Cuticchio". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 September 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14999, accessed 07 May 2024.]

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