Barton is caught between two worlds: besieged by smooth-jowled Etonians at college and spurned at home.
This year's festival, which begins Thursday and runs through Aug. 8, will revisit the controversy with a documentary, "Between Two Worlds," directed by Deborah Kaufman, the festival's founder, and Alan Snitow, her husband.
Its hero, Vincent Terranova, played by Ken Wahl, was an undercover agent who infiltrated deep into criminal enterprises, including one led by a charismatic, unstable mastermind memorably played by Kevin Spacey Vincentt was torn between two worlds and tormented by their competing allure.
That is much like Neo who brought balance between two worlds, the world of humans by ending their enslavement to the world of machines in Matrix Revolutions.
It was a coming-of-age story of a boy torn between two worlds: he is kidnapped by the Delaware tribe as a child and returned to his parents as a teenager.
Allies include Mr. Conductor (Mr. Baldwin), a miniature figure of boundless energy and cheer who transports himself between the two worlds by blowing on his whistle and disappearing in a cloud of gold dust.
The stated aim of the choreographer, Sophiline Cheam Shapiro, 32, is to build a cultural bridge between her two worlds by presenting a story from classical Western culture in the great classical art form of Cambodia.
Proud, ambitious for advancement, he is caught between two worlds, and can only reclaim dignity by ordering Christine around.
Twilit melancholy suffuses her Albania, where "Soft rain falls like apostrophes in a conversation between two worlds," family trees are "struck down by a bolt of lightning," and most days echo with "a gray metallic loneliness".
