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“The Servant of Two Masters” is a Master Class in Pantomime
Synetic Theater Jordan Wright April 9, 2022 Special to The Alexandria Times
Vato Tsikurishvili as Truffaldino and Maryam Najafzada as Smeraldina in Synetic’s The Servantof Two Masters. Photo by Johnny Shryock Photography
In a triumphant post-Covid return to the stage, […]
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 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 February 17, 2015 Special to The Alexandria Times
Cast of Much Ado About Nothing. Photo by Koko Lanham.
Hot Diggity Dog Ziggity Boom! In Synetic Theater’s jived up version of Much Ado About Nothing Las Vegas’s flamboyant landscape of feathered and sequined showgirls becomes the backdrop for Director Paata Tsikurishvili’s […]
Jordan Wright September 29, 2013 Special to The Alexandria Times
Joseph Carlson as Lord Henry and Dallas Tolentino as Dorian Gray. Photo by Koko Lanham
If I told you Synetic Theater was producing one of its much-lauded plays from their Silent Shakespeare series, you might have an inkling as to what to wrap […]
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