Masks are archaic and archetypal, ruthless but also poetic. Wearing a mask means becoming what the mask represents and requires a complete availability to allow it to manifest itself and complete the metamorphosis. It is therefore a great challenge and places the actor in a radical confrontation with his own body, until he becomes aware of his own instrument to find a unity between thought, action and communication.

This makes it possible to keep alive a universal code, which embraces every time and every place, in a theater of archetypes, in which the audience can find and recognise the deepest and simplest aspects of the human being. Masks in fact reveal more than they conceal. By covering the expressiveness of the face, they force the actor to a complete physical involvement, to an amplification and absolute precision of gesture, based on the total authenticity and truth of the body. Through the mask technique it is possible to develop the essential elements of theatre, such as play, imagination, rhythm, listening themselves and others, the sense of space, improvisation. It is undoubtedly one of the best ways to unhinge one’s expressive limits, sharpen one’s self-awareness, stimulate the creative process and develop the actor’s intelligence and scenic skills, allowing him to face all kinds of theatrical genre, with or without mask.