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Jordan Wright July 23, 2019 Special to The Alexandria Times
“Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest, yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
Set sail for adventure with Synetic Theater’s lively production of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale, Treasure […]
Jordan Wright May 20, 2019
Alex Mills as Richard iii ~ Photo Credit Brittany Diliberto
Artistic Director Paata Tsikurishvili calls this Richard iii “the most challenging production ever.” That may well be an understatement, because since the company’s inception nearly 20 years ago, they have consistently broken ranks with theatrical stereotypes through […]
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 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 December 8, 2014 Special to The Alexandria Times
Irinka Kavsadze as Belle, Vato Tsikurishvili as The Beast. Photo by Johnny Shryock
In Ben and Peter Cunis’s original adaptation of Gabriel Bardot de Villeneuve’s classic tale of Beauty and the Beast, the audience finds themselves catapulted into a dark world of […]
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