The Trestle Theatre Company Mask Workshop

Saturday 15 March 2003
10am to 4pm at Hampstead Theatre (see venue details)

LD members £50
non-members £65
student members £20
student non-members £30
(We reserve at least 3 places for students on all our courses)


Outcomes of the workshop were that participants would have:
• Learned the rules of the mask
• Gained a sense of the physicality and focus needed for performing in masks
• Understood the notion of the counter-mask
• Performed in masks in hot seating exercise, reacting to a prompt (the workshop leader)
• Practised creating an idea of story through complex movement sequences
• Practised advanced mask acting techniques, such as Internal Monologue
• Understood the potential of the Advanced Masks in developing complex characters
• Learned to make informed decisions as to appropriate stories for mask use
• Understood the kinds of narrative techniques that can be used to give depth, texture and suspense to a masked theatre piece
• Understood the role of the audience in constructing and interpreting meaning, and in building up an active relationship with the piece