The theatre was born in a bourgeois environment. In middle class families in the evening adults enjoyed watching reproductions of the famous operas in the evening as there was no television. Even children attended these shows and they liked them so much that the toy theatre became a very common Christmas gift in 195s0 and 1960s . The characters could be either marionettes or puppets. Marionettes are moved from above by strings, whereas puppets are moved by the puppeteer who puts his hand inside the puppet, like a glove as the Gianduja we can see hanging on the wall. This puppet comes from the Lupi family’s puppet theatre in Turin (it is based in Turin in Via Santa Teresa 5 inside an interesting puppet museum)