Synetic Theater has built their artistic identity on arresting visuals, stunning physicality, and frequently audacious wit and creativity in storytelling. All of these elements came into play when I stopped by a rehearsal for their upcoming production of The Picture of Dorian Gray. The scene they were rehearsing surrounds the creation of the supernaturally-powerful portrait […]
Archives for September 19, 2013
Animal Crackers
Dismay for Captain Spaulding, the African explorer. The show he’s in’s a snorer. Dismay, dismay, dismay! Poor Captain Spaulding (Bruce Randolph Nelson)—a role immortalized by the original rude boy, Groucho Marx—the other Marx Brothers Chico (Jonathan Brody) and Harpo (Brad Aldous) and any other hard-working performer lashed to this airless and laughs-challenged rendition of the […]