Beauty and the Beast at Synetic Theater

Beauty and the Beast

Synetic Theater
1800 S. Bell Street Arlington

Cunis and adapted by Ben and Peter Cunis (The Three Musketeers, Genesis Reboot), Synetic nimble actors and innovative theatrical effects will recreate the darkness and sensuality of the original French fairytale. Synetic will transform this classic gothic romance into a visual dream full of wonder and mystery.

Thru - Jan 11, 2015

Price: $35 - $75

Running Time: 1 hr, 40 mins no intermission

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Beauty and the Beast Reviews

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Washington Post - Recommended

"...That “Beauty and the Beast” is a tale so well suited for an animator is confirmed in the production’s best sequences, which all occur behind that movable screen. Look closely at the program’s fine print, and you’ll find mention of Zana Gankhuyag, an actor credited as the show’s shadow-puppet designer. Other actors are enlisted for the dynamic process of setting the puppets in motion. For his contribution to the show’s power, however, Gankhuyag deserves his name writ larger."

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- Peter Marks

DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

"...Synetic Theater has brought forth an earthy, musically rich, sophisticated retelling of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. At its heart, this appealing production harks back to the darker roots of what were once oral tales told by parent to child before literacy was widespread. Fairy tales then were morality short stories about good and evil that paralleled religious teachings."

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- David Siegel

Washington City Paper - Recommended

"...We already know they’re great at hurling themselves at people and objects—the combative choreography is, as always, devised by Synetic co-founder Irina Tsikurishvili—but that doesn’t make it any less thrilling to watch the beast leap up the sheer face of the two curved ramps that figure into Daniel Pinha’s murky set, or slide down the concave side when swooning over Belle (Irina Kavsadze). His physical transformations, depicted in silhouette behind a scrim through a clever mix of jerky dance moves and puppetry, feel genuinely dangerous. These body-horror scenes are accompanied by composer Konstantine Lortkipanidze’s familiar electronic bleeps and bloops, but the score (credited to Lortkipanidze, Clint Herring, and Andrew Gerlicher) also includes a haunting piano theme that followed me home, a Synetic first. If the Disney version of the story is the one most familiar to you, here’s a still-safe-for-the-kiddies arrangement that doesn’t elide the story’s stranger possibilities."

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- Chris Klimek

DCTheatreScene - Recommended

this version of the story stipulates that the Beast’s punishment is far from harsh, at least according to the Narrator. The Narrator is named Emmeranne, who was once the lover of the prince, but is now a sort of Fury. Understandable, since the Prince claimed that he was bewitched by her, and, this being medieval France, poor Emmeranne gets burned at the stake.

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- Alan Katz

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Beauty and the Beast at Synetic Theater