Comments on LondonTheatreGoer: Dido Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe, Cot...

I was there last night too. But after that fantast...

2009-03-25T12:18:00.000Z

I was there last night too. But after that fantastically modern opening with Jupiter and Ganymede getting caught romping on the Conran Shop sofa by Juno, I thought it was an extremely plodding three hours. Aeneas seemed anaemic - with virtually no stage presence and even though Anastasia Hill was vivacious in a young Maggie Smith way, she just wasn't sexy enough. Just because dramatists led

I certainly hope that nobody will be selling back ...

2009-03-23T20:32:00.000Z

I certainly hope that nobody will be selling back their tickets to Dido! My companion and I both thought this was one of the best productions we'd been to in a long time. It was a very slick production which exploited Marlowe's text to the full.

It was indeed a fairly straightforward interpretation, but the director did a beautiful job of drawing out Marlowe's classical emphasis on

Anastasia Hille's performance as Dido was one of t...

2009-03-21T23:35:00.000Z

Anastasia Hille's performance as Dido was one of the best performances I've seen (up there with Janet McTeer in A Doll's House over 10 years ago). While the play itself lacks dramatic dynamism, the production was, overall, very good indeed!

This really sounds like a "sell back my tickets" k...

2009-03-20T10:22:00.000Z

This really sounds like a "sell back my tickets" kind of moment for me ...