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WHAT TO CALL THE BRIDE? After the wedding, Camilla becomes Duchess of Cornwall. If Charles is crowned, she'll officially be Queen, but says she prefers the title Princess Consort...
Willig learned this lesson the hard way, at a 1998 screening of Elizabeth—in which Cate Blanchett’s turn as the titular queen was briefly supplemented by a cameo appearance by Marie De Guise, the sixteenth-century Scottish monarch who happened to be the subject of her senior thesis...
Lest the audience seek any respite in the comfort of the everyday world, the setting of Dido, Queen of Carthage looks and feels as dark and cold as outer space. When in one scene Dido, Aeneas, and their courtiers go hunting, the sudden appearance of staged “daylight” is beautifully painful, revealing vulnerable men and women so damaged by reality that they seem more at home in the gold-and-black no-place of the remaining scenes...
...once infernal and frozen, violent and funereal, Dido, Queen of Carthage is as fantastic as it is eerie. Audiences leave the theatre feeling slightly voyeuristic, having been privy to the raw and tortured ids of the desperate characters. Dido turns viewers into armchair pyromaniacs, riveted to the literal and psychological fires that consume the stage for an unrelenting two hours. We leave the blackened stage much as Aeneas must have left the charred ruins of Troy: tortured and haunted, with a taste of ashes in our mouths...
...Great Britain recognized Tsang with its ultimate vote of confidence—Queen Elizabeth II knighted Tsang as Sir Donald in 1997. This honor came just after Great Britain appointed Tsang as the first Chinese Financial Secretary in 1995, after 150 years of British incumbents...