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...fashioned, almost Victorian outlook remains. He may embrace polygamy - in a nation of millions of single mothers, Zuma calls it socially responsible - but the President disapproves of alcohol and television (both are "killing the nation," he told the teachers' conference in Durban), has boasted about how as a boy he used to "knock out" homosexuals and laments the disappearance of corporal punishment. Such back-to-basics views may be offensive to South Africa's élite and the ANC's more liberal members but they're also incredibly popular...
...through the ringer of supernatural scenarios, then WWN was probably coming scarily close to filling any gaps in the collective imagination. But whether it was the strangely sympathetic, glassy round eyes or the face that rivaled Macaulay Culkin’s “Scream” impression, Bat Boy, who made an appearance for the first time that month, caught the attention of shoppers and soon became the sweetheart of supermarket tabloid...
Five years later, the half-boy, half-bat sensation was causing a stir off-Broadway as the lead character in “Bat Boy: The Musical,” a production created in cooperation with WWN. Currently playing at the New College Theatre under the direction of Matthew I. Bohrer ’10 through Dec. 11, this adaptation of the creature’s life from his discovery onward indulges the audience in the spectacular task of answering the question “What is it?” Part moral inquiry, part love story, and primarily ridiculous...
...fact the whole cast is, perhaps not surprisingly, very talented. Klyce’s portrayal of Bat Boy is particularly remarkable; his arms and legs contort through most of the show into the sharp angles of a bat’s claws and legs in a performance that conveys a particularly strange animalistic posture with amazing naturalness. As the show progresses, his stance adjusts in an impressive expression of humanity through body language, and his voice transforms from the gargles of playful stupidity to the more articulate confusion of one bewildered but generally prepared to cope with the strangeness...
Nonetheless, the silly extravaganza that is the “fact meets fiction” of “Bat Boy: The Musical” manages to keep the wonder going even beyond the show’s incredibly tragic end. In the world of tabloid fantasy, love can be open to all, death is no longer a barrier to hope, and the optimism of the seemingly impossible can still ring out: Bat Boy lives...