Abstract
Questions of censorship and self-censorship are confronted through JuliaVarley’s experience of animating a skull mask on stilts, Mr. Peanut, and a puppet,Sheherazade. Mr. Peanut travels to many Latin American countries, and the article remembers episodes from Ayacucho, Perú, and Santiago de Chile, and the meetings with soldiers and police.
Highlights
The first step ever I took in theatre was with a mask
I had been to see a couple of rehearsals of a theatre group in a garage in Milan and the time I went there someone put a mask on my face and asked me to help carry the person playing the ‘dead soldier’ from a poem by Bertolt Brecht
This group, the Teatro del Drago, had started when Massimo Schuster - who at the time collaborated with the Bread and Puppet Theater - directed a performance with some high school students to make the money that would pay for his flight back to the USA
Summary
The first step ever I took in theatre was with a mask. I had been to see a couple of rehearsals of a theatre group in a garage in Milan and the time I went there someone put a mask on my face and asked me to help carry the person playing the ‘dead soldier’ from a poem by Bertolt Brecht. The mask helped me perform what I had been asked to do. A few years later I left for Denmark to work with Odin Teatret.
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