Mask ideas for Antigone in brainstorm session:

• All characters in character masks, chorus in neutral
• Once characters reach main point of change or breaking point, they remove their mask for the remainder of the play. They may either hold it to represent still having their former self, or they may later hang it up or throw it away to represent complete change or disintegration of their former self.
• During the Tiresias/everyone dying montage, the actors who play Antigone and Haemon can mime their deaths by (oh, the symbolism!) hanging up their masks in the position where they die, thus leaving behind Creon's memory of them and taking their new selves to Hades. Or something like that.
• If we decide that Creon goes back to ruling, even though being a much different and more solemn man, he can hold his mask again to show that he must be his façade in order to rule the city that ruined his family.

original mask work in greek theater can be traced back to... the cult of Dionysus

Articles:

• marshall - fifth-century mask making.pdf

Mask making

commedia dell'arte info

Posted at Jul 15/2007 08:49AM:
Jason: Hi Sonya, I posted on article (PDF) above, but will have to photocopy others for Monday. Browse around and maybe you'll find something interesting.