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Title:  Dido & Aeneas
Playwright:  Purcell, Henry and Nahum Tate  Publisher:  varies
Year  1689  Genre:  Opera
Period:  Restoration  Number of Acts/Scenes  3 acts 5 scenes
Passage of time:  One Day

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Basic Plot:  Adapted in part from the Aeneid by Virgil. Dido, Queen of Carthage, falls in love with Aeneas, who has landed in Carthage after fleeing from Troy after defeat in the Trojan War. Witches who hate Dido remind him that he is fated to be the founder of

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Contributor's Name:  Kasey Allee-Foreman
Contributor's Email:  klallee@ou.edu
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Cast Size As Written   Male Actors:  2   Male Chorus Actors:  0 Total Male Actors:  2 Number of Characters as Written   Male Characters:  2   Male Chorus Characters:  0 Total Male Characters:  2 Costume Numbers as Written   Male Costumes:  2   Male Chorus Costumes:  0 Total Male Costumes:  2 Actual Cast Size (if produced)   Male Actors:  2   Male Chorus Actors:  6 Total Male Actors:  8 Costume Numbers (if produced)   Male Costumes:  7   Male Chorus Costumes:  12 Total Male Costumes:  19

Female Actors:  7   Female Chorus Actors:  0 Total Female Actors:  7     Female Characters:  7   Female Chorus Characters:  0 Total Female Characters:  7     Female Costumes:  7   Female Chorus Costumes:  0 Total Female Costumes:  7   Female Actors:  8   Female Chorus Actors:  10 Total Female Actors:  18     Female Costumes:  0   Female Chorus Costumes:  13 Total Female Costumes:  13

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Notes on possible reduction/expansion of characters/costumes:  Dido was double cast

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Quick Changes:  Chorus plays multiple roles. If you stage teh Diana/Acteaon sce

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Specialty/Special effects costumes required:  

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Other important notes:  We did this in teh Baroque/Restoration styline (1689) as it would have been staged at a court masque. Can be done circa Trojan War. Set in Carthage, Aeneas is Trojan and leaves Dido to found Rome.

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