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Synetic’s The Tell-Tale Heart is Absolutely, Positively, Freakin’ Brilliant!

Synetic’s The Tell-Tale Heart is Absolutely, Positively, Freakin’ Brilliant!

The Tell-Tale Heart Synetic Theater Jordan Wright October 9, 2023 Special to The Zebra

Alex Mills as Edgar with the Synetic Ensemble. (Photo/Jorge Amaya)

Yes, I know you read Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart in high […]

Synetic’s Beauty and the Beast Conquers All

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 […]

The Hunchback of Notre Dame ~ Synetic Theater

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 […]

The Taming of the Shrew ~ Synetic Theater

Jordan Wright February 21, 2017 Special to The Alexandria Times

Ryan Sellers as Petruchio and Irina Tsikurishvili as Katherina. Photo Credit: Johnny Shryock

Some of Synetic’s “Silent Shakespeare” series productions are of the more classical variety. Knights in leather armor and ladies in diaphanous gowns, kings with proper crowns and gallant, swaggering […]

Sleeping Beauty ~ Synetic Theater

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 […]

Alice in Wonderland – Synetic Theater

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 […]