A conversation with Synetic Theater’s Artistic Director Paata Tsikurishvili By Joel Markowitz Recorded Saturday, August 23, 2008 As Russian troops occupied the Republic of Georgia, DC’s Synetic Theater, headed by Georgian artists, was rehearsing their season opener The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Artistic Director Paata Tsikurishvili received a call, then turned on Georgian news to […]
Archives for August 25, 2008
Maria/Stuart
Maria/Stuart By Jason Grote Directed by Pam MacKinnon Produced by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Reviewed by Tim Treanor Here is what happened, all those hundreds of years ago, as re-imagined in Friedrich Schiller’s play Maria Stuart: Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, is framed by a forged letter and executed for a treason she never committed, […]