Discuss “Enlist: Only your identity will be sacrificed”

Recruitment rather than relaxation framed either side of the performance of Bertolt Brecht’s drama Man is Man. Calls for new recruits came at the beginning and end of the play, urging audience members to step on stage at any time if they felt the need to join up.

Before the play began, audience members sat on wooden benches of all shapes and sizes and watched the actors apply makeup and perform warm-up exercises. If you were expecting a play that allowed you to lose yourself in the setting, you were wrong. The actors, all junior drama majors, prepared for the show while sitting on crates inside cubbyholes. Powder, cloth scraps, and water bottles were abundant, enabling the audience to see the students transform into soldiers before their...