The Tell-Tale Heart at Synetic Theater

The Tell-Tale Heart

Synetic Theater
1800 S. Bell Street Arlington

Step into the eerie world of Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, where madness takes hold and the boundaries of sanity blur. In this twisted tale, an eccentric old man and his caretaker embark on a lethal dance that spirals into madness and murder. With dark humor and a haunting atmosphere, Synetic invites you to question: who is the crazy one?

Thru - Nov 5, 2023

Thursdays: 8:00pm

Fridays: 8:00pm

Saturdays: 8:00pm

Sundays: 2:00pm

Show Type: Comedy/Drama

Box Office: 800-494-8497

www.synetictheater.org

The Tell-Tale Heart Reviews

Average Rating based on 4 reviews

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Washington Post - Somewhat Recommended

"...With a jeweler's precision, Edgar Allan Poe forged a succinct masterpiece in "The Tell-Tale Heart," a story of madness and violence that runs a mere five or so pages. Would that such conciseness prevailed in Synetic Theater's adaptation of the 1843 work. Although objectively shortish - about 110 minutes - and boasting some inspired fever-dream moments, the show feels overlong, narratively padded and repetitive."

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- Celia Wren

DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

`Two geniuses, Synetic Artistic Director Paata Tsikurishvili and Edgar Allan Poe, come together in The Tell-Tale Heart. Sparks fly. And, as always with the greatest adaptations, a totally new creation comes into being, revealing aspects of the earlier version that we had never imagined."

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- Sophia Howes

Talkin Broadway - Recommended

"...Synetic Theater's thrilling adaptation of The Tell-Tale Heart marks the return to directing of Paata Tsikurishvili, the company's founding artistic director, following his recovery from serious injuries he suffered in an accident late last year. He has explained that he began taking a deeper look at Edgar Allan Poe's masterpiece of madness and horror during his convalescence, along with recalling his earlier experiences caring for a family member with dementia.:

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- Susan Berlin

Washington City Paper - Recommended

"...In a largely wordless production, the weight of the story is lifted off the text and placed on the visual and aural elements. In both cases, The Tell-Tale Heart serves up a feast-sometimes to the point of overindulgence. Daniel Pinha's set is dominated by three walls of cobwebbed and cluttered shelves on wheels, which become central aspects of Edgar's descent into insanity. That all of them function just as well as a diorama of Poe paraphernalia speaks to the quality of detail as much as construction, though certain of the props created and collected by designer Claire Caverly-large, beaming eyeballs, for example-disrupt the mystique by dipping into the cartoonish."

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- Jared Strange

The Tell-Tale Heart at Synetic Theater