Commentary explores the interplay of reality and imagination in drama therapy through masks, highlighting their significance in self and role.
This commentary is based upon Robert Landy’s autobiography, The Mask and the Mirror: A Life in Drama Therapy , to be published in 2027. Landy discusses how the mask embodies the drama therapy paradoxes of reality and imagination, role and self. He cites photographer/mentor, Claude Cahun, whose deep mask work informs an understanding of role theory in drama therapy: ‘Under this mask, another mask. I will never finish lifting up all these faces’.
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