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`DIDO' PUTS IN A RARE APPEARANCE THE ART STAGES MARLOWE'S 1585 TRAGEDY

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20050304
Author:Louise Kennedy, Globe Staff

CAMBRIDGE Christopher Marlowe wrote "Dido, Queen of Carthage," his ferociously brilliant blank-verse tragedy of Dido and Aeneas, in 1585. Yet because it's almost never staged in this country, says the English director Neil Bartlett, it seems like a brand-new play.

"Even at Harvard, very few people are going to know what happens next in this play," says Bartlett, whose production of "Dido" opens tomorrow at the American Repertory Theatre and runs through March 26. "It's not like `Antigone' or `Phedre,' where people are going, `I wonder how they'll do it this time.' "

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