A human narrator, Giafar the magician, addresses the audience. One of his spirits tells him that he found the pure-hearted child Giafar was looking for. Giafar needed the child to capture the powerful genie of a magic lamp. At a marketplace, the narrator recounts the story of Scheherazade to some children. Among them was Aladdin – the pure-hearted child. Giafar pretends to be his uncle, and then leads Aladdin down into an underground cave to retrieve the magic lamp. But Aladdin does not give it to him, and so Giafar abandons him in the cave. With the help of a magic ring, Aladdin goes back to his mother’s house, bringing with him many precious stones as well as the lamp. He frees the genie, who helps him and his mother earn enough money to support themselves for years. Later, as a grown-up, the Sultan agrees to let Aladdin marry his daughter, thanks to the precious stones he found in the cave. But Giafar the magician finds out that Aladdin is still alive and that he grew rich with the help of the genie. He does everything in his power to retrieve the lamp and the genie. But in the end, Aladdin defeats Giafar. The genie seals him in the lamp and Giafar is doomed to come out only to tell the story of Aladdin to children.

Armed rod marionette

Rod and string marionette

Single rod marionettes

Not specified

Italy

Palermo

Printed

Magic

Power

Treasure

Childhood

Child

Purity

Love

Genie

Lamp

Fantasy

Mimmo Cuticchio in Aladino di tutti i colori

Italian

Magician

Narrator

Storyteller

Devil

Aladin

Mother

Town crier

Princess

Virticchio

Nofrio

Choir

Sultan

Vizir

Soldier

Female companion

Address to the public

Apparition of the Devil

Apparition of a genius

Fall of a character

Flying machine

Hidden character

Avista

Dialogue between actor and puppet

Battlefield scene

Fight between an actor and a puppet

Aladino di tutti i colori

Aladdin of all colours