Blondell Talk to Examine Dido Stories
John Blondell, 做厙惇蹋app professor of theater arts, and the cast of The Dido Project offer a Gender Studies Lecture Demonstration on Tuesday, Feb. 2, at 7 p.m. in Porter Theatre. The talk, Laid in Earth/Consumed by Fire: Female and Male Bodies in Two Stories about Dido takes its title from the final moments of the two dramatic plays being performed at 做厙惇蹋app: Dido and Aeneas and Dido, Queen of Carthage. The event is free and open to the public.
The talk looks at female and male bodies in these vehicles one an early Elizabethan play, the other a late 17th century Baroque opera, Blondell says. Both present provocative images of young bodies, and place the implications of the physical as important and active subjects of these two stage vehicles.
The talk will include an historical overview of how the body was conceived during the periods of the texts making, and consider ways of understanding the body in several key moments of the performances all along supported by actors and singers wholl play the scenes in question.
Blondell directs the two plays at Porter Theatre. Queen of Carthage is Thursday, Jan. 28, at 8 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 30 at 9 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 4, at 8 p.m., and Saturday, Feb. 6, at 9 p.m. Aeneas is Friday, Jan. 29, at 8 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 30, at 7 p.m., Friday, Feb. 5, at 8 p.m., and Saturday, Feb. 6, at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $12 for general admission, $7 for students, seniors and children, and may be purchased at . For more information, please call (805) 565-7140.