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Ian Ball has experienced
some mysterious times in
Michigan recently.
Currently, he is cast as Inspector
Goole in the production of An
Inspector Calls at the Jewish Ensemble
Theatre. About a year ago, the Jewish
actor was cast as a Jewish detective
in No Way to Treat a Lady, staged
in co-production at the Meadow
Brook Theatre in Rochester and the
BoarsHead Theater in Lansing.
Ball, 43, appears in his fourth role
with JET during Inspector's run, April
17-May 19 at the Jewish Community
Center in West Bloomfield. The B.J.
Priestley play, the last in the corn-
pany's 2006-2007 season, is set just
before World War I.
"Although the play is an engaging
mystery, it is unlike most mysteries,"
says Ball, who is based in Chicago. "It's
really about the characters.
"In most mysteries, the point is to
figure out the mystery, and there are
stock characters to help you do that. In
this play, it's about the characters not
being who the audience thinks they
are and not even being who they think
they are in the context of the play"
Ball's earlier work with JET has
included very different productions.
He appeared angry and overbearing
in Conversations With My Father and
took on many roles in The Laramie
Project. Fiddler on the Roof brought
him into the musical realm.
"The inspector goes to the Birling
home to investigate the suicide of a
young girl, and he seems to be the only
one who knows what's going on:' Ball
explains. "It becomes very cerebral:'
Ball's stage work includes produc-
tions of 1776, As You Like It, Sunset
Boulevard, Evita and Barnum; film
work encompasses the indie Chicago
Boricua, about three Puerto Rican
Americans.
"I did my first play when I was 5
years old at summer camp:' Ball says.
"I got hooked on acting while per-
forming in school plays growing up in
Boston, and by 15, I realized it wasn't
easy but it was possible to make a liv-
ing through acting.
"I got my bachelor's degree
in theater at the University of
Massachusetts-Amherst, and my first
job was with a touring children's the-
ater based in Boston."
While on tour, Ball decided he liked
Chicago and settled there.
"Acting is all I do, but theater is not
all I do:' he says. "I work on commer-
cials, industrial films and corporate
training. I've also worked with lawyers
on their courtroom presentations?'
An Inspector Calls, directed by
Christopher Bremer, features B.J. Love
as Arthur Birling, Mary Wright Bremer
as Sybil Birling, Inga Wilson as Sheila
Birling, Patrick Croning as Eric Birling
and Dax Anderson as Gerald Croft.
"Acting lets me access parts of
myself that don't usually get a work-
out:' says Ball, also trained in singing.
"I [relate] to the depth of emotions,
thoughts and ways of behaving that
are very real?' 11
An Inspector Calls runs April
17-May 19 at the Aaron DeRoy
Theatre in the West Bloomfield
JCC. Performances are 7:30
p.m. Wednesdays (except May 9,
when there will be a matinee at
2 p.m.), 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, 5
and 8:30 p.m. Saturdays and 2
p.m. Sundays. There also will be
a preview performance 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 17. $17-$39. (248)
788-2900.