“It is common knowledge that performers who have positions of visible leadership are often merely figureheads, selected as a compromise, or as a way of neutralizing a potentially threatening position, or as a way of strategically concealing the power behind the front and hence the power behind the power behind the front.”
“Behind many masks and many characters, each performer tends to wear a single look, a naked unsocialized look , a look of concentration, a look of one who is privately engaged in a difficult, treacherous task.”