Playing the mask : acting without bullshit /
Award-winning theater-maker and teacher John Wright explores and demystifies mask-work, what masks do, how they do it and, above all, what they can teach us about acting.
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London :
Nick Hern Books,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Paul Hunter
- Raking over a few gurus
- When the whole face is covered: playing full-mask. Ko-omote ; Woman about to do something ; The innocent ; Nice-but-dim ; The determined heron ; Woman about to be hero ; The hero
- When part of the face is covered: playing half-mask. Arlecchino ; Mr Magoo (The modern half-mask) ; Man trying to be nice (Balinese bondres) ; The red nose (The smallest mask in the world)
- When the mask becomes a thought: archetypal masks. The trickster ; Man about to be hero ; The hero ; The fool ; The victim ; The child ; The virgin ; The mother ; The huntress ; The ogre ; The crone ; The hermit ; The devil
- When the text becomes a mask. Lady Macbeth in feathers ; Using archetypes
- In conclusion: something for tomorrow.