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Extracts from tragedy and new comedy. Actors in my masks performed short scenes shown in a television programme "Seven wonders of ancient Greece" on UK Channel 5 and Discovery Channel .
In performance based research, I have explored how related characters in the tragedies can be performed using very similar masks but clearly identified by the actor’s physicality and subtle variations in how the mask is presented. Here the sisters, Antigone and Ismene from Sophocles’ Antigone
A short video clip of a chorus scene from Sophocles Antigone, showing that the mask can be used with sensuous and very physical movement, to great dramatic effect.
Video clip with Chris Vervain demonstrating some of the properties of Greek masks.
