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Jordan Wright April 28, 2018
Shakespeare’s first play, Titus Andronicus, was written for pure shock value. It’s considered a revenge play and his purpose was to get noticed and to one up his competition. A sort of revenge of the playwright, if you will. It worked. In today’s world, it would probably be categorized […]
Jordan Wright July 21, 2017
Ryan Sellers (Cain), Philip Fletcher (God) ~ Photographer: Johnny Shryock
In his apocalyptic vision of the end of the world Georgian-born Director and Adaptor Paata Tsikurishvili offers up a slo-mo intro to the birth of Evil. In it he provides God (Philip Fletcher) with a large mobile […]
Jordan Wright December 15, 2016 Special to The Alexandria Times
Irina Tsikurishvili, the Witch – Photo Credit: Johnny Shryock
A rather streamlined presentation of what we’ve come to expect from Synetic Theater’s no-dialogue series, is Sleeping Beauty. We half-mad aficionados of this famed Georgian troupe have been spoiled by a cast of […]
Jordan Wright October 5, 2015 Special to The Alexandria Times
Kathy Gordon as Alice, Vato Tsikurishvili as Caterpillar. Photo by Johnny Shryock
Alice is very, very, very unhappy. She has had to surrender her favorite playthings to a recently hired cruel-hearted governess, Ms. Prickett (Renata Veberyte Loman, later seen in the role […]
Jordan Wright October 7, 2014 Special to The Alexandria Times
Synetic Theater has taken H. G. Well’s science fiction classic The Island of Dr. Moreau and morphed it into a frighteningly realistic maelstrom of horrors, just in time for Halloween. For those who like being terrified by a mad scientist whose muse is a […]
Jordan Wright January 13, 2014 Special to The Alexandria Times
Philip Fletcher as Orsino and Kathy Gordon as Olivia. Photo by Koko Lanham.
If you’re planning on seeing Twelfth Night, the tenth production in Synetic Theater’s “Silent Shakespeare” series, you’d better dust off your Shakespeare. Because though the plot […]
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