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...world of Ba??€™al is a place where propriety and restraint appear obsolete and where shocking alternatives challenge and sometimes consume its inhabitants. Brecht’s audience is then charged with surviving and somehow evaluating an eerie parallel universe and recognizing that a young poet’s struggles with his humanity is a mirror of their own torturous reality...
...Ba??€™al, Brecht attempts to provoke the audience into responding both emotionally and intellectually to the scandalous behavior of his protagonist. By editing the original text down to a production time of just longer than an hour, Director Geordie F. Broadwater ’04 has perhaps realized Brecht’s intent more fully than the author did in his own lengthy original. Broadwater’s Ba??€™al is a constant, visceral experience for the audience...
...small performance space of the Loeb Experimental Theater perfectly corresponds to Broadwater’s vision for Ba??€™al. The audience sits intimately around the performance space, encircling the actors in a voyeuristic glimpse into this harrowing universe. In fact, the distinction between stage and audience blurs so much that the audience feels passively involved in the world of Ba??€™al?...
...sacrifice—chanting an opening chorus and lighting incense in a quasi-religious ceremony. With convincing performances turned in by Robert A. Hodgson ’05 and Michael E. Moss ’03, the four ballim constantly assume different roles in the play as they people Ba??€™al’s strange reality. They literally drag Ba??€™al into this dreamlike world and then test his moral resolve by slipping into characters that alternately tempt and infuriate...
...fact, Ba??€™al, masterfully portrayed by David Modigliani ’02, first appears writhing on a tavern floor, devouring scraps of bread that the ballim throw at him. The opening scene’s sensory overload also hints at Ba??€™al later depravity, including his insatiable desire for wine and women...