Make up in Theatre

In a play like the Lion King make-up is extremely important to make the characters more animal like and to give them more of an animal color. If they had not used make up for the Lion King it would be very difficult to tell which characters where which. For our play make-up will be important to make our actors more Asian looking since Fa Mulan is a Chinese story. Also, both make-up and costumes allow girls to play boys and boys to play girls. Make-up is important because it can make someone look completely different than they do in real life. If make-up wasn't a part of theatre some characters in different plays wouldn't be very believable to an audience.