The theatrical Mask is not an ordinary artistic object to cover the face in replace of the actor’s work. The language of the Mask is made of light and shadow, strong and light sounds, silence, movements and pauses – harmoniously opposed. The theatrical Mask, unlikely a painting or a sculpture, gets alive only when it is used by an actor committed with the dynamics of the lines of strength that rises from the features. Each trace and each volume of the Mask turn into the body of the actor as weight, as physical opposition, producing a style of game with a specific quality of energy.

Moitará faces the theatrical Mask as an endless source of research for the actor, for it makes him/her understand the principles that guide his/her Art, within pedagogical bounds as much as within artistic ones. Thus, along these years, the Group has been making a systematic training, researching its own methodology, using several kinds of Mask.

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