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Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 is extremely unsettling. In the tight darkness of Leverett Old Library, our distance from the riots is shattered as we descend the steps into the arena where we sit, often catching stray spotlight and in full view of the other audience members and actors. The space affords little of the accustomed anonymity, and from the start it becomes clear that the aim is not to please, but to trouble...
...police's reaction to government dictums; a do-gooder bent on creating communication between the communites; and a man who would enter other communities as invader. Some of the most poignant stories were the least political--the magical account of a Latino woman who survives being hit by a stray bullet, a narrative in Korean (translated by another actor) about the looting of her shop. The actors faced a tough task in making their acting as realistic as the language provided by the script, and they often succeeded--overcoming the difficulty of accents and the absence of the interviewer...
...business interests do not exploit the weak or impinge on the environment, both of whom are unable to negotiate their own terms. A few people with toothpicks, often from privileged institutions like Harvard, have been afforded the luxury of fine-tuning these margins of the system, to keep the stray negative elements in line. I would beg them not to take the vast positive mass of that system, which enables this luxury in the first place, for granted...
...most part, the stories contain interesting characters involved in everyday situations, and Moore explores these while winding intricate thoughts into the heads of her characters. Rarely, if ever, does the omniscient narrator comment on the characters or their actions. One area where Moore seems inclined to stray away from the norm is dialogue; all too often, people say things that just aren't spoken by normal people; they're spoken by people in existentialist plays or in college lectures on surrealism. Occasionally these can be distracting--it's hard to believe that these lines are coming from her own experience...
Slick your hair back and get one more use outof that zoot suit and pair of saddle shoes. Beforeswing falls out of favor and the next dance crazebecomes all the rage, catch the Brian SetzerOrchestra jump, jive and wail away. Whenformer Stray Cat Setzer jams with his 17-pieceband, the joint will be jumping. Make Vince Vaughnproud. 9 p.m., The Palladium, 261 Main St.,Worchester, 423-NEXT. Tickets...