« ...so, theatre for children, first of all a theatre that pleasantly strikes their imagination: therefore the most precious material we have to deal with are the fantastic, fairy, adventurous elements; the genre should be comical, humorous, caricatural. But for God’s sake, avoid family pictures, patriotic sketches, pathetic and sentimental oleographies, touching stories of little acrobats or hungry chimneysweepers, pitiful dramas of orphans and forlorn foundlings; avoid the edifying gestures of these honest pupils and the noble actions of these heroic balillas… And above all no morality or educational intent».

Sergio Tofano (taken from the book Recitare per bambini), 1928