Mask: Making, Using and Performing (Education - Drama, performance and craft) - Softcover

Mike Chase

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907359664 ISBN 13: 9781907359668

Publisher: Hawthorn Press Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hawthorn Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1907359664
• ISBN 13: 9781907359668
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176