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...poster were anything to go by, Baal was to be an earnest, wrenching and dark drama of sunken sockets and deep grimaces. Weary of exactly such grand concepts and heavy emotions, the young Brecht wrote this play as a mild satire of late-nineteenth-century symbolist drama. This is not to say that the play is not be treated seriously but certainly not with the solemnity that the cast of Baal at the Loeb Ex did. In fact, many, especially amateurs, stay away from lyrical, intense tragedies on stage these days precisely because of the danger of ending...
There is no doubt that this sensual, mythical poem-play is extremely challenging not only by virtue of its grand themes but also because of its schizoid scenes and violent characters. Baal is the name of a fertility god, but this play, full of images of rotting food and flesh, charts the progression of an over-ripe and destructive appetite. The bohemian poet, Baal (Daniel Sussner '00), is an enormously charismatic man who desires to eat, fuck, experience and be everything, ultimately even death itself. He is forever yearning for the infinite "purple sky" and the "dark river...
...depth of the stage was exploited to its fullest: stifling scenes of Baal's seedy attic in the gut of the stage, outdoor romantic ones in the woody fringes and a split stage for crowd scenes. The objects that took central stage were apt, given the nature of the play: a stained bed, a drinking table and a dining table...
...Baal would help our sex lives, our sociallives, our sports records, and our general mentalwell-being. Baal would help us solidify our holdon the U.S. News rankings. But most of all, Baalwould offer us an alternative to conformity and anescape from the all-consuming homogeneity thatcurrently cripples American society...
...Baal is democratic. Baal is hip. Baal ispre-modern. Baal is post-modern. Polytheism ismaking a comeback, and Harvard cannot afford to beleft behind while the choice gods are swept up.Join the march into the future: go out, grab anidol, get some incense, burn your thesis, and havesome fun. We have nothing to lose but our chains.We have a world...