How To Act Out Pure Evil Without Losing Your Soul

“It is the most violent five minutes of New York theater in memory: A soldier rapes the main character of ‘Blasted,’ then sucks out his eyeballs and eats them in nearly plain sight of audiences — which, night after night for weeks, have been watching in shock.” It’s an awful thing to watch, but it’s even more difficult for the actors who must enact the scene every night.