Sicilian puppet theater was the predominant form of cultural expression for working-class southern Italians and Sicilians from the early 1800s until the proliferation of television in the 1950s. This ...

In Sicily, puppetry is a synonym of art, history and tradition, as shown in the Antonio Pasqualino International Puppet ...

Tradition and innovation. Tradition is represented by the creation and use of Sicilian puppets, marionettes that mostly represent knights in armor and ladies. The innovation is that the show is ...