This lively production, directed by Gordon Edelstein and entertainingly performed by a cast of four, revels in Mr. McDonagh's anarchic streak: the pure infantile joy of crashing against taboos, giggling all the way.

Yet Mr. Forsythe would not be himself without the anarchic streak that colored his early pieces in the 1980's.

It may simply be that Switzerland has produced few artists of international renown, or perhaps it is that Jean Tinguely personified an anarchic streak buried deep beneath Swiss conventionalism.

There is an anarchic, bloody-minded streak in British public taste which likes to feel that it is striking out on its own with idiosyncratic preferences and non-conforming views.

Yet the humorous way in which he challenged all expressions of authority, from government and police to Roman Catholic Church and Irish Republican Army, also appealed to the anarchic streak in a good many Dubliners.

Still, it might have appealed to his anarchic streak that the Pompidou Center, along with other French museums, has been closed for two weeks by a labor dispute.

Portraying such a place has shot the young Mr. McDonagh to international fame as a playwright with an anarchic streak as wide and twisting as the River Liffey.

Leaderless resistance - Collectives often share the anarchic streak associated with such entities.

They were artists with an anarchic streak looking for an apartment.

Turning his attention back to the young artist: "The professor tells me you've got an anarchic streak; you like to poke fun at the art establishment.