Dido, Queen of Carthage
Cottesloe
The Overcoat
Lyric Hammersmith
Simple plays can be the hardest to get right. James Macdonald has made a dogged assault on the earliest work of Christopher Marlowe. The story is lifted wholesale from Virgil.
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