Word: alã
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...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?...
...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...
...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...
...power of sexual experience, as both a realization of carnal desire and a manifestation of power, overwhelm Ba’al??€™s actions. Not even the resolve of his spiritually pure lover (played by Steven J. Sandvoss ’03) thwarts his demise...
Perhaps, though, it is appropriate that the audience’s lasting impressions are of Ba’al alone. Indeed, the outer, physical world dissipates, leaving only the vestiges of Ba’al??€™s inner struggle...