The "guarattelle" theater, the traditional theater of Neapolitan puppets, has been handed down from generation to generation for over 500 years going around the world on the puppeteers’ arms, and Gianluca Di Matteo has been presenting it at festivals, in theaters, at cultural centers and in the streets across the world for 15 years.
Gianluca has always worked as a craftsman. He builds all his puppets by himself by cutting out pieces of wood to make them from, then sewing their clothes and building the sets where they act.
One of his Pulcinella is exhibited at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta! Come and visit his shop or call him and he will come with the whole caboodle ...