Forming Confidence With Masks at Trestle Theatre

Trestle Theatre Company in St Albans, UK, is a mask and physical theatre company with a 40-year history. Its mission is to inspire creativity for all through participation and dialogue.

Backstage at Trestle, mask makers share their process, and their story, as they engage young people in the arts building confidence in true theatrical fashion.

Watch how important vacuum forming is to their productions - with over 5,000 masks created each year, the two Formech vacuum forming machines have pulled about 100,000 masks!