Masks in sin titulo

short and sweet, im dying.

1: The teacher mask: as the frenzy of the teacher's rampage heightens, the actress then takes a mask that is simple (just the face with holes on the eyes, nostrils and mouth), grey and dark grey horizontal stripes that turns her into this sort of ninja-movement person. This is the only one that i didn't understand, and it's weird because usually masks in yuyachkani don't come out of the blue, but this one felt like it did. This mask changed the way the actress moved, her movements (accompanied by some form of chop sticks) became swift and almost violent, so masks serve as a form of characterization and as an incentive for using our bodies as actors.

2:The politicians and judges, this one was the one i understood the most. Its shape and colors and cartoonish nature had a mocking effect, they mocked the politicians (montesinos, fujimori, etc) and along with the music and body language (and body in general, the head was bigger giving this feeling of having a "big head", or letting the power get to their heads, etc.) gave this part of the play a more comical appeal. so then the semiosis here is to mock these politicians and judges, to present them as clowns and laughing-stocks of the population, however, when we think about it, the actions in the play were not of us fooling them, they were of them fooling us so were they really presented as that? or were they presented as that to further present US like that?

3: the baby in the pot, this one was kind of tricky as well, roberto explained that this play with the elements and the fire in the belly meant something, it meant some sort of inner turmoil in the character, i said it meant she was pregnant, but roberto said it had been more violent than that, so maybe a rape? the mask clearly represented a baby, and in this case it serves as a substitute for an actual baby, like in antigone, it serves as a substitute for a character, but it is also used to represent how that character, stiff, has now been lost forever (when the mask is broken).

4: The blindfold used here, could it be counted as a mask? or is it a mere representative? then, what is a mask? and how far can we push to say that something we put on our faces is a mask? in this case, if it were a mask, it represented blindness and how the character or the population was being played by the government, by the corruption. Here a "mask" represents a state in which the people or character is in, rather than transforming it as it did in the first one or as it would if it were a mask of a bird,