Mimmo Cuticchio Explained
Mimmo Cuticchio (born 30 March 1948) is an Italian cantastorie, puppeteer, actor and playwright.
Life and career
Born in Gela, the son of Giacomo, a puppeteer who had a travelling theatre, Cuticchio inherited the family legacy and in 1973 founded the Teatro dei Pupi Santa Rosalia, an Opera dei Pupi in Palermo.[1] [2] The same year he wrote his first cantastoria play, Giuseppe Balsamo conte di Cagliostro. In 1977 he founded the association and stage company "Figli D'Arte Cuticchio".[3]
During his career Cuticchio focused on renewing the arts of Opera dei Pupi and cantastoria, opening them to contemporary themes and to civil commitments.[4] [5] As an actor, he appeared in several films, notably playing a leading role in Emanuele Crialese's Terraferma.[6] In 2022, he received a honorary degree from Roma Tre University.[7]
In 2007, he won the Hystrio Award in the Teatro Festival Mantova.[8]
In 2015 the collection of Sicilian puppets started by his father was acquired by the Sicily Foundation, and is now on display at Palazzo Branciforte, Palermo.[9]
Filmogrphy
- One Hundred Days in Palermo, directed by Giuseppe Ferrara (1984)
- The Godfather - Part III, directed by Francis Ford Coppola (1990)
- Rehearsals for a Sicilian Tragedy, directed by Roman Paska (2009)
- Baarìa, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore (2009)
- Mainland,) directed by Emanuele Crialese (2011)
- Cha cha cha, directed by Marco Risi (2013)
- In the name of the Italian people, directed by Maurizio Sciarra - documentary film, episode Piersanti Mattarella (2017)
- Cùntami, directed by Giovanna Taviani - documentary film (2021)
Theatrography
- Don Turi and Gano di Magonza, directed by Mimmo Cuticchio (1994)
Notes and References
- News: Conversazione con Cuticchio . Corriere della Sera. 2 January 2014 . 11.
- Book: Reimann . Horst . Siziliens kleines Volkstheater, opera dei pupi . 1982 . Deutsches Institut für Puppenspiel . 978-3-88317-009-1 . 12–3, 45 . de.
- Book: marionnettes . Union internationale des . Encyclopédie mondiale des arts de la marionnette . 2009 . Entretemps . 978-2-912877-88-8 . 198–9 . fr . Mimmo Cuticchio et ses marionettes.
- News: Audino . Antonio . I sogni del cantastorie Mimmo . 7 February 2023 . . 3 August 2014 . it.
- Web site: Cutìcchio, Mimmo . www.treccani.it . . 7 February 2023 . it-IT.
- News: Conti . Mariateresa . Dall'opera dei pupi al cinema: Mimmo Cuticchio attore per Crialese . 7 February 2023 . . 17 October 2010 . it.
- News: Redazione . Laurea honoris causa di Roma Tre a Mimmo Cuticchio: "La condivido con tutto il teatro di figura italiano". 7 February 2023 . SicilyMag . 16 November 2022 . it-IT.
- Web site: PREMIO HYSTRIO 2010 . archivi.dar.unibo.it.
- Web site: pupisiciliani Archivi . Palazzo Branciforte . it-IT.
