This is Drama Masks, a Bay Area performing arts column from a born San Franciscan and longtime theatre artist in an N95 mask.

Plus: SF Ballet's 'Frankenstein' was a Gothic, if not great, delight and Killing My Lobster's new 'fun run' rips and roars.

No band has used masks quite like Sleep Token, though. Looking further back to the relationship between face decoration and themes of anonymity and identity, comedy and tragedy, theatre and ritual ...