A modern approach in the use of mask in Ancient Greek Tragedy

The workshop has as main purpose to explore the uses of the mask in the Ancient Greek Tragedy under a modern approach of the term ‘’mask’’. A mask can be anything we use to cover our face. It can be a paper bag or a plastic bag or a traditional clay mask or a TV screen or a painting and whatever one can imagine as a mask. Under that prospective we explore how the actor embodies the mask and uses it as a tool of expression; how the body of the actor interpret that ‘’new face’’ and creates a ‘’new body’’ and a ‘’new language’’. The workshop helps the students to understand the enormous potentials and varieties of the mask. Creating a mask is a mystic procedure that connects the actor/creator with her/his mask. The actor uses her/his own imagination to inhale life to his/her role by giving it literal a ‘’Face’’.
The workshop has been presented at LaGuardia Community College in Spring of 2017.