Lansburgh Theatre Main Entrance
On Saturday I had a night out with my wife to watch a play ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ by Synetic Theater on Lansburgh Theatre stage of the Shakespeare Theatre Company. If you are a theater-goer and have a chance to see only one show while in DC, I would definitely encourage you to go to Synetic’s production. Labeled as ‘Washington’s Premier Physical Theater”, they always deliver very original eye-full and ear-full avante-guard adaptations of classical works. When I say ear-full it refers to music, as this particular play is in “Silent Shakespeare” series. A few plays of this theater that I watched have all had some breathtaking choreography and very original bold interpretations ot the source.
Every time I watched them I was finding some great ‘gemstones’ of director’s fresh interpretation of a well-known material, so I never stopped being amazed. And again, since it’s primarily ‘physical theater’ it has to be seen, not relayed in words. As a matter of fact, it’s good to brush up on the plot of the play in advance by reading the synopsis. It helped me a lot, since my last encounter with the original play was in my teens, and thus the memories became a bit rusty 
At any rate, I got a great re-fresher with this Synetic’s adaptation.
I did enjoy the show a lot, but now I need to get back to my MBA assignments: two cases to be submitted for Managerial Accounting and a quiz in Global Perspectives this coming week is no little matter.
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