Word: broadwaterã
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...Broadwater??€™s able acting evolves with his progressing madness. Though by the play’s end the audience finds the Captain’s state desperate and terrifying, Broadwater??€™s transformation is gradual and imminently believable. He has total command over his acting and inhabits the role completely...
...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?...
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...
...withstanding some weaknesses in execution, Broadwater??€™s Ba’al is an innovative production that maximizes the emotional potential of Brecht’s play. It portrays humanity in all its stark, shocking and terrifying guises, and then abruptly leaves the audience to contemplate the emotional aftermath of their experience...