likeniobe:chipo chung as dido in the royal shakespeare company’s 2017 production of christopher malo
likeniobe:chipo chung as dido in the royal shakespeare company’s 2017 production of christopher malowe’s dido, queen of carthageAeneas, describing Troy’s fall, talks of “Young infants swimming in their parents’ blood” and says: “We saw Cassandra sprawling in the streets.” Meanwhile Dido, foreshadowing Dr Faustus, says of Aeneas: “He’ll make me immortal with a kiss.” Edith Hall makes a fine point in the programme when she notes that Marlowe does not call his play Dido and Aeneas but gives the queen the title. Chipo Chung plays her with a volatility and sense of contradiction that anticipates Shakespeare’s Cleopatra. Chung brings out all of Dido’s rhapsodic fervour for Aeneas but is at her best in the great speech where she is torn between sabotaging his ships to prevent his departure and expressing her undying love. (from this review in the guardian) -- source link
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