DRAMA 2015-25 — Masks II

2 credits
Fall and Spring
Kathleen McNenny

The mask is a powerful tool that enables actors to free their instincts, impulses, and imagination. Both character and animal masks are used to expand what the actor is capable of. The work demands that the actor fill the mask physically, vocally, emotionally, and psychologically, in order to embody the life of the character. Mask work serves not only to release the student’s imaginative capacity for transformation, but to prepare the way for equally courageous characterization without a mask.