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...plot deepens, Ba??€™al travels a path from moral uncertainty to dissolution, and then to despair. Those influenced by the ballim who enter his life—a virgin, a priest and a woman whom Ba??€™al seduces, impregnates and abandons—further Ba??€™al’s rejection of self-constraint...
...power of sexual experience, as both a realization of carnal desire and a manifestation of power, overwhelm Ba??€™al’s actions. Not even the resolve of his spiritually pure lover (played by Steven J. Sandvoss ’03) thwarts his demise...
...each exploratory scene, a spotlight flashes from above and shrill, discordant noise blares. Ba??€™al alone suffers these sensorial punishments or pangs of conscience. In time, the sounds amplify and the lights blind as Ba??€™al fully transforms into the destructor fathomed by the ballim...
Modigliani’s powerful interpretation of Ba??€™al is instrumental in realizing Broadwater’s production. Modigliani inhabits the role in robust, full-bodied fashion, and the audience shudders with his every writhe and demonic grin. In sometimes taunting the audience, then desperately calling out for help, he forces them to see themselves as implicated, even if unwillingly, in his plight...
Perhaps, though, it is appropriate that the audience’s lasting impressions are of Ba??€™al alone. Indeed, the outer, physical world dissipates, leaving only the vestiges of Ba??€™al’s inner struggle...