Mimmo Cuticchio
Mimmo Cuticchio | |
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 Cuticchio in 2017 | |
| Born | 30 March 1948 (age 78) Gela, Caltanissetta Italy |
| Occupations | Cantastorie, puppeteer, actor and playwright |
Mimmo Cuticchio (born 30 March 1948) is an Italian cantastorie, puppeteer, actor and playwright.
Life and career
[edit]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.[1] In 1977 he founded the association and stage company "Figli D'Arte Cuticchio".[1][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.[1][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 an 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]
Filmography
[edit]- One Hundred Days in Palermo (Italian: Cento giorni a Palermo), directed by Giuseppe Ferrara (1984)
- The Godfather Part III, directed by Francis Ford Coppola (1990)
- Rehearsals for a Sicilian Tragedy, (Italian: Prove per una tragedia siciliana) directed by Roman Paska (2009)
- Baarìa, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore (2009)
- Terraferma, directed by Emanuele Crialese (2011)
- Cha cha cha, directed by Marco Risi (2013)
- In the Name of the Italian People, (Italian: Nel nome del popolo italiano) directed by Maurizio Sciarra (2017)
- Cùntami, directed by Giovanna Taviani (2021)
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 "Conversazione con Cuticchio". Corriere della Sera. 2 January 2014. p. 11.
- ↑ Reimann, Horst (1982). Siziliens kleines Volkstheater, opera dei pupi (in German). Deutsches Institut für Puppenspiel. pp. 12–3, 45. ISBN 978-3-88317-009-1.
- ↑ marionnettes, Union internationale des (2009). "Mimmo Cuticchio et ses marionettes". Encyclopédie mondiale des arts de la marionnette (in French). Entretemps. pp. 198–9. ISBN 978-2-912877-88-8.
- ↑ Audino, Antonio (3 August 2014). "I sogni del cantastorie Mimmo". Il Sole 24 Ore (in Italian). Retrieved 7 February 2023.
- ↑ "Cutìcchio, Mimmo". www.treccani.it (in Italian). Enciclopedia Treccani. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
- ↑ Conti, Mariateresa (17 October 2010). "Dall'opera dei pupi al cinema: Mimmo Cuticchio attore per Crialese". Il Giornale (in Italian). Retrieved 7 February 2023.
- ↑ Redazione (16 November 2022). "Laurea honoris causa di Roma Tre a Mimmo Cuticchio: "La condivido con tutto il teatro di figura italiano"". SicilyMag (in Italian). Retrieved 7 February 2023.
- ↑ "PREMIO HYSTRIO 2010". archivi.dar.unibo.it.
- ↑ "pupisiciliani Archivi". Palazzo Branciforte (in Italian).
