Mark H.

2025-26 Artistic Research Fellow

The Mask of Blackness: An Epic Fantasia on Beauty, Power, and Imagined Otherness

The Mask of Blackness: an Epic Fantasia on Beauty, Power, and Imagined Otherness is both a single large-scale immersive theater experience, and an organizing conceptual framework for a series of smaller-scale global events that reimagine Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones’ The Masque of Blackness (1605) as a medium through which to confront questions and problems related to its content, theatrical form and historical legacy.