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  Trading Faces entertains people by using masks to create popular, appealing and energetic theatre. As a theatre company of national and international renown, Trading Faces creates and uses distinctive and original masks in performance and for educational and training purposes.
Media: Trading Faces
• creates media learning resources for secondary, further, higher, youth and community education based upon its work with masks and their significance
• creates mask and sculptural exhibitions in galleries, museums and in other settings.
Shows: Trading Faces
• creates theatre that celebrates the immediacy of masks
• creates and commissions participatory performance projects that offer powerful learning and training opportunities
• creates popular entertainment for the 21st century from a timeless European and international craft tradition.
Performance workshops: Trading Faces
• encourages people to develop their creative potential through mask making and performance projects
• has the tools, skills and experience to model workshops for learning about performance, behaviour and communication: for education, for business, for community and for many other purposes.
Reaching people: Trading Faces
• has developed its art in ways that engage with and respond to people's interests, passions, and sense of humour
• entertains audiences, indoors and outdoors, wherever they are:
— in shopping centres and in libraries
— in art galleries and in a medieval abbey storehouse
— in a rowing boat, on Bournemouth beach
— in village halls and in the Royal Albert Hall
— in town squares and parks & in theatres and arts centre
• has run performance workshops in many settings and with many groups, from prisons and amateur theatre companies to universities and schools, from master-classes for professional performers and training workshops for teachers to young families in community centres and young people in band huts, museum basements, youth centres and churches, to senior executives from multinational companies.
Profile: Trading Faces
• has presented over 500 performances & 2500 performance workshops across the UK as well as parts of Europe
• has been a featured act in many UK theatres & arts centres' festivals & seasons of inspiring & accessible new work
• has performed & run workshops
— in the International Ireland Puppet Festival
— in the Poitiers Festival, France
— in Denmark to help transform the role of arts in schools
— in Lithuania to help develop the national cultural strategy for youth
• has been documented widely on Channel 4, CBS, Central TV, Radio 4 & in publications by Mime Action Group, Visibility, Southern Arts & the Department of Heritage, Prison Service News, Prison Service Journal, Drama Magazine
and also on websites for National Drama, Scottish Mask and Pupet Centre and London Drama booklist.
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