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...Dido, Queen of Carthage...
...Where we are is hell, and where hell is, must we ever be.” So wrote Christopher Marlowe for Doctor Faustus, though the line would be equally fitting for the wracked souls of his later work, Dido, Queen of Carthage...
Though ordinarily the myth of Dido and Aeneas plays as tragedy or romance, with Christopher Marlowe’s verse and Neil Bartlett’s direction, Dido, which plays through March 26 at the Loeb Drama Center, becomes more of a psychological horror story. The play keeps the audience transfixed yet repelled by the demonic passions of its characters and the equally demonic gods deciding their fate...
Jupiter is badgered by both, first allowing Aeneas and the Trojan refugees to capsize in Juno’s storm but then granting them safety on Carthaginian stores. Venus, hoping to cure her son’s life-endangering wanderlust, sends Cupid to shoot an arrow of love into Dido...
...idea: Aeneas is far too scarred by memories of carnage and survivor’s guilt to settle down for long, while Dido is too strong-willed to take “no” for an answer. Aeneas uses Dido’s love to fortify his ships and companions, then deserts Dido to seek the promised land of Italy and build a “new Troy,” the Roman empire. Dido, crazed by despair, burns herself to death, driving those who love her to similar fates...