masks in macbeth. key design words: haunted. folktale. appalachia. madness. redemption

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Page 1: Masks in Macbeth. Key Design Words:  Haunted.  Folktale.  Appalachia.  Madness.  Redemption

Masks in Macbeth

Page 2: Masks in Macbeth. Key Design Words:  Haunted.  Folktale.  Appalachia.  Madness.  Redemption

Key Design Words: Haunted.Folktale.Appalachia.Madness.Redemption.

Page 3: Masks in Macbeth. Key Design Words:  Haunted.  Folktale.  Appalachia.  Madness.  Redemption

Overall Mask Tone: Repetitive, Imaginative, Ethereal.

Page 4: Masks in Macbeth. Key Design Words:  Haunted.  Folktale.  Appalachia.  Madness.  Redemption

Overall Mask Look:Visceral, Contained, Unsettling.

Page 5: Masks in Macbeth. Key Design Words:  Haunted.  Folktale.  Appalachia.  Madness.  Redemption

The remnants of our choices, of our work, form the masks we wear.

Page 6: Masks in Macbeth. Key Design Words:  Haunted.  Folktale.  Appalachia.  Madness.  Redemption

Connected to the land. The conflict between the natural world and human decision.

Page 7: Masks in Macbeth. Key Design Words:  Haunted.  Folktale.  Appalachia.  Madness.  Redemption

Artisan.Earthen. Homemade .

Page 8: Masks in Macbeth. Key Design Words:  Haunted.  Folktale.  Appalachia.  Madness.  Redemption

Ghostly Faces and Haunted Spaces:

Butoh face and mask work as a way to think about how the masks live in our production.

Page 9: Masks in Macbeth. Key Design Words:  Haunted.  Folktale.  Appalachia.  Madness.  Redemption

White Face Makeup

Every character will wear very soft, almost sheer and effervescent, white face makeup to capture their haunted-like quality; a very clean, simple look. Not too dissimilar from Johnny Depp’s “Dark Shadows” character, but without darkened eyes.

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The WitchesNeutral, clean, and simple ½ masks. Made of plaster. The texture will

speak to the natural, earthen quality to the world the witches live in.

Page 11: Masks in Macbeth. Key Design Words:  Haunted.  Folktale.  Appalachia.  Madness.  Redemption

The WarriorsFinger face paint applied during performance: marking the ritual of getting ready for war.

Page 12: Masks in Macbeth. Key Design Words:  Haunted.  Folktale.  Appalachia.  Madness.  Redemption

The MurderersBlack infinity scarves worn as shown

below, which then transition into hoods for the murder. A softness and fluidity in texture which then takes on a harsher life-form as they become masks worn during murder.