A Midsummer Night’s Dream

After stunning audiences with wordless adaptations of Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet, the wildly inventive Synetic Theater tackles one of Shakespeare’s most renowned comedies with signature bravado and dramatic physicality. Synetic’s Paata and Irina Tsikurishvili, artistic director and resident choreographer, have honed a performance style that synthesizes classical elements of drama, movement, dance, mime, and music into a unique brand of physical theatre. While the verse is missing, the proceedings are anything but silent — with a combination of subtlety and daredevil acrobatics, the Bard’s fantastical, darkly playful game of love, mistaken identity, and the supernatural is brought to vibrant new life.

“(Puck) shape-shifts as if he were Silly Putty. His performance establishes the gymnastically playful tone for this beguiling production, the latest in the company’s series of Shakespeare ignited with music and dance.” The Washington Post

This performance is made possible by the W. Ford Schumann ‘50 Endowment for the Arts The Lipp Family Fund for Performing Artists.