The Neutral Mask I, with Jos Houben
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The Neutral Mask workshop Houben led for the International Workshop Festival in Edinburgh was the only one of this kind he ever attempted. It was an experiment.
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Commentary
by Simon Murray
Simon Murray identifies a ‘mutually productive series of understandings, dispositions and principles common to both extracts’ of Houben’s work in these two, quite different workshops.
Practitioner
A director, teacher and actor, Jos Houben trained at L’École Jacques Lecoq, was a founding member of Complicité, has directed comedy and television, and toured his one-man masterclass internationally.
Practitioner
Known principally as a teacher rather than as a performer or director, Jacques Lecoq’s work on comic and physical performance has been immensely influential, thanks to his collaborators and students.