Sudhashree Acharya PG Student, Department of English, Bhatter College, Dantan, West Bengal Email: sudhashreeacharya39912@gmail.com Abstract Although the use of medical masks has gained its zenith during the Corona infected pandemic phase, the theatrical use of masks existed long before that across various performative cultures and theatrical practices around the globe. Looking at the Western…
Moumita Santra Former PG Student, Department of English, Bhatter College, Dantan, West Bengal Abstract As a traditional folk art form, folk dances of West Bengal hold a remarkable position in the lives of the rural people. There are certain masked folk dances in West Bengal that are primarily performed by the local people during certain…
Dibyendu Bhattacharyay State Aided College Teacher (Category – I), Department of English, Balagarh Bijoy Krishna Mahavidyalaya Abstract The Corona pandemic has taught us the necessity of three things – primarily the use of masks and maintaining hygiene and social distancing. Besides its importance in the space of performance, Masks have been ever important in the…
Nishanta Ghatak M. Phil Research Scholar in Gender Studies, Vidyasagar University Abstract Mask has always been a perennial motif, since, going by the historic-socio-politico-mythological tradition, it is subtly but intricately embedded in any country’s culture, daily life, multifarious literary repertoires; providing a gullible innocence before the hypocritical guises and camouflaged farces, in a sublime, aesthetic…
Chris Vervain (Dr Christine Lambert) An artist, mask maker, author and theatre director of several masked productions of Greek drama In ancient Greece the word for theatrical mask was prosopon, the same as the word for “face”, “one’s look” or “countenance.” (Liddelland Scott). Their term lacked the connotations of the English word “mask” which, in…
Kaberi Das Mahapatra State Aided College Teacher at P.G Department of English, Bhatter College, Dantan, West Bengal, India and Academic Relations and Research at The Golden Line. E-mail: kdm92bcd@gmail.com Dharmendra Sutradhar is an internationally acclaimed Chhau Mask maker from Charida Village, Baghmundi, Jhalda Subdivision of Purulia District, in the State of West Bengal, India. He…
Themed Issue on the Performativity of Masks in Theatre and Culture Volume 4, Number 1, 2021 The history of the ‘mask’ is invariably as old as the history of the theatre. The traditional use of the mask as one of the most important ‘performing objects’ goes back, at least, to the Paleolithic Age. As…