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Though viewers unfamiliar with Brecht??€™s work might find the abridged play difficult to follow and aficionados may nitpick the down-playing of certain themes, the work that emerges benefits from the alterations...
...Bertolt Brecht??€™s Ba’al is a play about the power of sex, amorality and decadence that culminates in self-destruction. Written in 1919 following the armistice ending World War I, the play captures the nihilism and moral uncertainty arising from the modern world’s first widespread glimpse at meaningless violence and annihilation...
...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...
...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...
...intelligent, creative artist looking to express himself through his work. Though he confesses to needing the motivation deadlines provide, David doesn’t mind engaging a perfect stranger in conversation about this or that creative project. For instance he is currently preparing for an upcoming performance of Brecht??€™s Baal, performing with IGP—one of the student improv groups on campus—and writing a creative dramatic thesis whose explanation warrants more space than this profile can give. Commenting on the different perceptions of him floating around campus, David muses, “people...