In September 2006 I joined the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project on The Body and the Mask in Ancient Theatre Space run jointly by the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University and King’s Visualisation Lab (KVL), part of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities based at King’s College London. It is a multi-faceted project that includes not only analysis and virtual reconstruction of ancient artefacts and architecture, but also practical intercultural performance research, which hopes to shed light on ancient performance practice. As a specialist in Asian performance and masks, my role in the project involves working with performers from Asian mask traditions using both their own masks and Greco-Roman masks specially made for the project from three-dimensional models of ancient terracotta miniatures dating from c.50 BC to c. AD 200 (corresponding to periods 4, 5 and 6 in Webster and Green 1995).