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DIDO, QUEEN OF CARTHAGE
by Christopher Marlowe
Directed by Perry Mills
Music by Benjamin Britten
Poster by David Troughton
CAST
Gods
Jupiter: Will Lindsay
Hermes: Pascal Vogiaridis
Ganymede: Nick Jones
Cupid: Joe Pocknell
Goddesses
Venus: David Fairbairn
Juno: Hamish de Nett
Trojans
Aeneas: Barnaby Bos
Ascanius: Charlie Waters
Achates: Ben Clarke
Ilioneus: Fred Barnes
Cloanthus: Kieran Pope
Sergestus: James Williams
Carthaginians
Dido: Daniel Wilkinson
Anna: George Hodson
Nurse: James Wilkinson
Lord: Oliver Lloyd
Iarbus: Finlay Hatch
Trojan sailors, Carthaginian lords, attendants, waiters, choirboys, gymnasts. P.E. teachers: Patrick Ellis; Dominic Ellis; Jack Hawkins; Ben Clarke; Alistair Campbell; Joshua Danks-Smith; Samuel Bridges; Joseph Woodman
PRODUCTION TEAMS
Technical Assistants: Lawrence Woodward; Tim Beswick; Charles James-Pemberton
Costumes: Amanda Wood
Make-up and Wigs: Hamish de Nett; Joshua Danks-Smith
Props: Louisa Nightingale
Composer: Benjamin Britten
Musical Director: Andrew Henderson
Percussion: Matthew Jones
Stage Manager: Felix Marot
Design and Construction: David Troughton
Producers: Richard Pearson and Mark Ellis
Director: Perry Mills
Friday 20th September 2013: Levi Fox Hall, King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon
Saturday 21st September 2013: Great Hall, Christ Church College, Oxford
Click here to read a review by Dr Brett D. Hirsch of the University of Western Australia.
Related link: review of Dido, Queen of Carthage by Helen Osborne in Marlowe Society of America Newsletter (Vol. 33, No. 2, Spring 2014)
Related link: audience reaction to Dido, Queen of Carthage
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