Director Aaron Posner uses almost every tool in his bag of tricks to make this play not just zip along, but crackle with energy and wit.

Turning the controversy over Synetic Theater’s productions into a debate about federal funding of the arts.

The Fat and Greasy Citizens Brigade production will take place on June 11-12, 18-20, and 25-27.

Alex Mills as Puck. Photo by Ray Gniewek. The hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiills are aliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive in Synetic Theater’s nonverbal, nonstop production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream! Okay, so maybe not the hills, but certainly the forest prowled by Alex Mills’s supple and lupine mischief-maker, Robin Goodfellow. Upholstered in ghostly blue fur and forever coiling his spine in ways that will make any chiropractors in the house see dollar signs, he’s the best thing about this fourth Synetic…