Georgian stage director receives best reviews for epic novel in Washington

Victor Hugo’s epic novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame premiered by the Georgian stage director Paata Tsikurishvili this May has been reviewed as one of the best shows in the United States’ capital of Washington.

Per Synetic Theater’s official page Tsikurishvili’s play "brings his mind-bending, cinematic style to Victor Hugo’s gothic, heartbreaking epic of inner beauty and undying loyalty”.

When the beguiling dancer Esmerelda captures the heart of the deformed bell-ringer Quasimodo, his adoptive father, the priest Frollo, decides he wants her for himself. Photo from www.synetictheater.org

The Washington Post’s chief theater critic Peter Marks says Tsikurishvili’s play "gives a hyper-creative Washington group a source for one of its most beautifully realised productions”.

With Irina Tsikurishvili’s choreography the production has no dialogues. Photo from www.synetictheater.org

Founded by Paata and Irina Tsikurishvili, Synetic Theater made its artistic debut in 2002 with a wordless Hamlet show and quickly established itself as a dazzling and innovative physical theater company.

Synetic Theater's new production has been running in Washington DC from May 10 until June 11. Photo from www.synetictheater.org

Tsikurishvili and his wife have been named as Washingtonians of the Year back in 2014 for outstanding service to their community.