Washington Post - Highly Recommended
"... The production’s premium level of satisfaction is traceable in major measure to its 23-year-old star, whom director Paata Tsikurishvili has given perhaps the most dominant role in any piece in Synetic’s 11-year history. Mills is onstage virtually nonstop for all 90 diabolically intense minutes of “Jekyll and Hyde.” And sometimes, through digital sleight-of-hand, he is onstage twice at the same time."
MetroWeekly - Recommended
"... this is a star turn for Alex Mills, a regular with Synetic. With accomplished clarity and much detail, even if it must be writ large, Mills captures the two distinct sides of this man. Though it is a rather slow start in the laboratory, Mills works hard to set the mood and it pays off when events unfold into a tortured whirlwind. This is a perfect role for Mills, who, possessed of an especially lithe and flexible body, uses it with a keen sense of theater and artistry. He is Irina Tsikurishvili's vehicle and his understanding of her vision of shape, space and form –and the emotion it conjures - is consummate."
BroadwayWorld - Recommended
"... True to the Synetic tradition of breathing new life into classic tales, the theatre company’s world premiere of Jekyll and Hyde is a virtual master class in how to meld intense choreographed movement with stunning set/light/sound/video design and original music to create a visually and aurally stunning production. When a strong ensemble of actor-dancers executes Irina Tsikurkishvili’s modern, yet classically-infused choreography with precision and raw purposeful emotion, the production becomes even more satisfying. While there are several issues in how Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale of good vs. evil has been adapted for the stage in this incarnation, the end result is still most satisfying."
Washington City Paper - Highly Recommended
"... The sense of ensemble is strong, as it always is in a Synetic production, but the show rightly belongs to Mills, the charismatic contortionist who introduced himself to Synetic audiences with a bogglingly boneless turn as Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2009. He creates two entirely silent but thoroughly communicative physical languages for the tempted but tight-assed Jekyll and the lascivious, libertine Hyde; the director-choreographer team of Paata and Irina Tsikurishvili have even conjured sequences where the two men appear for a few moments in the same physical space, grappling furiously with each other and with their warring desires."
DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended
"... Synetic Theater has started its new season with another spectacular show. This time the talented company takes on the classic tale of good and evil, Jekyll and Hyde, based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and adapted for Synetic by Nathan Weinberger and director Paata Tsikurishvili. Led by a tour de force performance by Alex Mills in the title role, Jekyll and Hyde is one of Synetic’s most powerful and strikingly visual shows to date."
DCTheatreScene - Highly Recommended
Synetic Theater, a company which has never shied away from showing squirmy evil in all its wormy liveliness, here produces a ninety-minute symphony of depravity, and I mean that in a good way. Jekyll and Hyde, loosely based on Robert Lewis Stevenson’s story, could, with justice, be subtitled The Fall of Man, and How Good It Feels.
