Word: ballimer
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...Biblical figures associated with war, pleasure, sacred prostitution and virginal 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...
...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...
...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...
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