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Synetic’s Beauty and the Beast Conquers All
Beauty and the Beast Synetic Theater Jordan Wright March 7, 2023 Special to The Zebra
Irina Kavsadze as Belle with Zana Gankhuyag as the Beast (Photo/Elman Studios)
With his son Vato by his side, a standing ovation greeted Synetic co-founder, Paata Tsikurshvili […]
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 May 14, 2017
Philip Fletcher as Frollo (center), with Gargoyle Ensemble Photo Credit: Johnny Shryock
The first five minutes of Synetic’s latest production is so haunting you may think you’re having an out-of-body experience. It comes at you slowly, unwinding like a cobra from a basket. It’s a visceral sensation from […]
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 […]
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 […]
Jordan Wright Feb 25, 2013 Special to The Alexandria Times
Cast of The Tempest; photo by Johnny Shryock
There is only one way to grok Synetic’s ‘Silent Shakespeare’ productions and that is to give your self over, heart, mind and soul, to the fantasy unfolding upon the stage. Because like […]
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