A Celebration of the Manteo Sicilian Marionette Tradition September 24, 2011

Tony De Nonno shares the legacy of the Manteo family, puppeteers bound together by a Sicilian Marionette Theater that spans a century in New York. Since 1908, five generations of the Manteo family have performed with life-sized marionettes. This distinctive art form of Marionette Theater emerged in Sicily in the early nineteenth century, though the tradition of performing with marionettes dates back to the sixteenth century.