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"The Synetic Theater traffics in rapturously surrealist stagecraft."
Bob Mondello

Synetic Theater is Washington DC’s premier physical theater company. Founded in 2001 by the husband and wife team of Paata and Irina Tsikurishvili, Synetic seeks to advance and enrich the theater arts in the Nation’s Capital through its unique performance style, which fuses the classical elements of drama, movement, dance, mime, and music into a distinct form of non-realistic theater. This form is simultaneously avant-garde and accessible, with a broad appeal to a wide, culturally diverse, and cross-generational audience. Synetic produces four original works for the Main Stage season and five shows for the Family Series per year, performs at area schools through its Outreach program, and offers classes for all ages through its Studio.

Synetic Theater made its artistic debut in 2002 with its wordless Hamlet…the rest is silence and quickly established itself as a dazzling, powerful, and innovative physical theater company, receiving the 2003 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Resident Play, Outstanding Choreography, and Outstanding Director. Synetic has continued to build upon its success with each season more impressive than the last. Overall, Synetic has earned 52 Helen Hayes Nominations and won 15 Helen Hayes Awards in only eight seasons, garnering acclaim for its wordless Shakespearean repertoire (Hamlet…the rest is silence, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream) as well as its text- and movement-based classical pieces, such as Host and Guest, Frankenstein, and Carmen.

In 2006, Synetic began its five-year partnership with The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to produce one show per season for The Kennedy Center and has recently extended its contract another three seasons. This season, Synetic has forged an alliance with the Shakespeare Theatre Company to produce its new adaptation of Antony and Cleopatra at STC’s Lansburgh Theatre, solidifying its position as a Washington fixture.