A shot in the dark

Cupid's arrows fly in ART's 'Dido, Queen of Carthage,'but the results are disappointingly bland

By Ed Siegel

Globe Staff / March 11, 2005

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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. (Full article: 730 words)