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A SHOT IN THE DARK CUPID'S ARROWS FLY IN ART'S 'DIDO, QUEEN OF CARTHAGE,' BUT THE RESULTS ARE DISAPPOINTINGLY BLAND

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20050311
Author:Ed Siegel, Globe Staff

CAMBRIDGE The gods, they must be sadists. That's the subtext of Neil Bartlett's adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's "Dido, Queen of Carthage" at the American Repertory Theatre. Marlowe, who was Shakespeare's contemporary, is not done very often, which is a shame. If Shakespeare was the Beatles, he was the Rolling Stones.

Bartlett, a Brit himself, is clearly very fond of the bad boy of Elizabethan theater and sees in his work a model for raging at authoritarianism in all its manifestations. In "Dido," the luckless lovers are manipulated by forces they don't understand.

But while this "Dido" is ...

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