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...play opens with black-caped ballim—the 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...
...Similar contrasts can be found in Weil’s other paintings. “Memories of a Sacrifice?? shows the skull of a ram over bound branches. The bright oranges and reds again obscure the underlying anxiety of the painting. Although the ram is given for sacrifice, the viewer is aware of Weil’s bitter confrontation—Can we really escape the ram’s fate in the face of God’s demands...
...emigrant is “a kind which is disappearing,” the epitome of “a conscious self-sacrifice??he died in his homeland, but was never born elsewhere,” claims Lausevic. Similarly, Dimic envisions emigration as a “pathological state” of a person who does not belong anywhere. Individual personal émigré dilemmas intertwine in the play. “Speaking to Jack [in the gastarbaiter role], I was speaking to myself,” says Lausevic. Similarly, Lausevic warns us of the threat...