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...orchard appears onstage--if the audience is willing to dream. Represented by reed-like fluorescent tubing, the cherry orchard lights up the stage but frustratingly is often blocked by other scenery. The other scenery includes two-dimensional cutouts of slanting houses, off-kilter columns standing alone on the floor, and floating window frames. With so many pieces, all of them rigged from above, George Tsypin's cluttered design has more traffic flying in and out than Logan Airport...
Perhaps, there's something a little off-kilter about the whole city. The Kings playing in the Stanley Cup finals is possible to believe. Even Democrats can maybe understand L.A.'s election of its first Republican mayor since the Bronze Age. And L.A. kids rushing to the streets to play hockey is explicable...
Seberg too creates a slightly off-kilter heroine. With her cherubic looks and clumsy accented French, she fits the part of the ingenue, but there's a hard, selfish edge to her character that makes this innocence seem more than a little put on. She keeps checking her fetching looks in mirrors...
...would-be romantic lead, is such a milquetoast. Ryder, after whetting our appetites in "Beetle-juice" and "Heathers," is the vamp we've always wanted her to be. And Anthony Hopkins, who claims not to have brought Hannibal Lecter to bear on his role as Dracula's off-kilter nemesis Dr. Van Helsing, nevertheless gives us a few sparkling moments of Lecteresque macabre humor...
That escapist streak is evident in rave clothing, which tends toward loud primary colors, patterned wool caps and untucked shirts emblazoned with peace signs, happy faces and corporate logos. A key part of the look is "trip toys," or out-of-kilter trinkets and prankish paraphernalia like op-art jewelry, prism eyeglasses and fluorescent body paint. "A trip toy is something that will catch people's attention and make them smile," says Niles Peacock, who attends raves with a ball-point pen that transforms into a tiny soap-bubble blower. "The whole purpose is amusement...