"Without an external form neither your inner characterization nor the spirit of your image will reach the public. The external characterization explains and illustrates and thereby conveys to your spectators the inner pattern of your part." (Stanislavski: Building a Character)
People sometimes look like animals: their faces, their movement rhythms, their postures and gestures, their habits and internal characteristics resemble those of their animal equivalents. Beyond the easy way of imitating a monkey, a bird or a snake there is another world to enter: the revelation of a character in its physical and psychological complexity requires in-depth analysis, comprehension of non-verbal cues and most of all, imagination. Combining her extensive work in training actors with her background in visual arts and recent studies in psychology, Kriszta Bodonyi has developed a range of animal-human masks and a step-by-step instruction booklet about this fascinatingly challenging educational concept.

The Book contains: Introduction to the concept (Teacher's guide),

Activity sheets to photocopy for classroom exploration

Ideas: group and solo exercises, devising short pieces, adapting stories or scenarios from drama scripts.

Format: expandable spiral-bound instruction booklet. Suggestion: depending on your budget you may choose a starting ensemble of 5 characters. You can always add to the "cast" later. You may want to equip yourself with enough masks for a whole class, set up a semester-long program or use the concepts and the masks in an end-of-year production.

Price: Starting Ensemble: 5 masks + book $290.00 Each additional masks ordered at a later time: $45.00

Discount: 10 masks + book $480.00 - 20 masks + book for $950.00