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What is masking?
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It is an indigenous performance in West Africa
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What are its details?
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Maskers become spirits they represent
Community both knows and doesn’t know who the masker is Context: ritual space In Du S. Read's article, "Theatre in Africa" we can deduce that there is an outside circle surrounding the one masked-- unity no backstage-- has to fully become the character |
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Egungan masking
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is from the Yoruba people in Nigeria and incorporates
Egungun: bone or skeleton Voices of the Dead Funerals/openings of factories/festivals Drumming |
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We see masking in Play Mas
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As the characters partake in Carnival they adapt masking for their constumes.
"The robber takes of his mask. It is Frank" (Matura 136) |
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Tie it together
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Masking has been adapted from storytelling into Carnival.
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