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Jordan Wright October 10, 2018
Warning: This is not your childhood storybook version of Sleepy Hollow. Thanks to Director Paata Tsikurishvili, Washington Irving just got woke. This reimagining foretells a far darker, far cooler, swashbuckling horror story of a headless horseman and his nemesis, Ichabod Crane. Zombie lovers, this one’s for you.
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 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 May 22, 2015 Special to The Alexandria Times
Alex Mills as Jerry and Vato Tsikurishvili as Dorian. Photo by Koko Lanham.
An eclectic jumble of flea market collectibles informs Luciana Stecconi’s clever set for Jerry’s one-room flat, in what reads as New York’s East Village. Vintage Ronald Coleman movie posters […]
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