Shamanism, Masks and the Origins of Theatre.
Kurdish Mask and Puppet project 2010
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Q: Why use masks and puppets?
- People can relate and take something in which is more abstract.
- Children have no problem's accepting masks, they just want to touch and try it on.
- Pre-intellectual thinking, no language is really need to understand the mask and the character.
- We, as adults think too much - Is this right? How do I do it? What should I do?
What does a mask mean to ...
Society: Rituals, brings and binds a society together.Establishes rules.
Spiritually and practically.
Individual: Belong/ part of a society.
Feel accepted.
Survival.
Shapes all purpose of life
Dealing with the known and unknown.
The Rice Ritual appears to have influenced the mask created and used for the Interlude Play, the symmetry, shapes and simplicity.
Origins of Theatre...
'Theatre grew out of ritual'
Anthropological Theory...
- Late 19th Century to the early 20th Century.
- Theatre Grows From:
"Rituals, based on
seasonal cycles of
growth, death and ressurection
in nature."
Shamanistic Theory...
- (ET Kirby)- Mid 20th Century onwards.
- Theatre Grows From:
"Ritualistic healing,
where the 'perfromer'
cures the patient
whilst in a trance state
possessed by spirits."
Performance Theory...
- (Richard Schechter, Victor Turner)
- Theatre Grows From:
"The propensity of humans to 'perform'
whether to 'achieve' profound or spiritual things
or to 'entertain' the community."
Q: What is a Shaman?
- 15 to 20 thousands year old figure of a community.
- A shaman is a person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of benevolent and malevolent spirits, who typically enters into a trance state during a ritual, and practices divination and healing.
^ Wiki .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamanism
- A central figure of a society.
"Knowledge", "Power" and "Master of Spirits".
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