When I went to the theatre school I knew after a few weeks I would not be an actor. What I could do was fine, but was always the same thing. The good students could do something very different each time. I could do the projects, but it was always the same solution. When I was at theatre school in Paris twenty years ago, we did a number of exercises using what were termed neutral masks----a leather mask with a bland or non-expression. The effect of this mask was to remove facial expression as part of the performance. This was rather devastating for people like myself, whose poor performances had started from an emotion on the face. Happy, sad, smiling mouth, rolling eyes, furrowed brows----these stocks in trade all became useless. ----The Time-Image
Il Returno d'Ulisse