Mask

Mask: Making, Using and Performing

Mike Chase (author)

Based on many years' experience training and working across the world, Mike Chase brings his expertise to this most comprehensive book for practitioners in mask drama. Extensively illustrated with beautiful photography, the book expresses perfectly the energy of how masks work in drama, therapy and teaching. Beginning with detailed instructions on how to make different masks, Mike moves on to the specifics of the four temperaments: the Choleric, Sanguine, Phlegmatic and Melancholic. He suggests many workshop exercises that can be used in dramatic, therapeutic and team-building scenarios, making this an indispensable book both for teachers and psychologists.

Mike Chase has taught and directed physical theatre, mime and mask at drama colleges and universities for over 30 years. He established the Mask Studio in the mid-nineties to develop masks for training, education, performance and therapy. These masks are used internationally by theatres and theatre companies including the RSC, the National Theatre, LAMDA, Trestle Theatre, the Welsh National Opera and Told by an Idiot. Currently, Mike works as a psychodrama psychotherapist in a high security prison with violent offenders, using masks and psychodrama.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hawthorn Press (2017)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1907359668
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 18.59 x 1.27 x 22.81 cm