Darling Dido Play
4-7th March, Pembroke New Cellars Loosely based on the life of Dido Elizabeth Belle, set a few years after the First World War, Darling Dido is the coming-of-age story of Dido, who is a sixteen-year-old mixed-race girl living in 1920s England. Dido is caught between a desire to conform to white upper-class civility or find her place within the shifting social tides of post-war Britain. But overall, she yearns most deeply for the one thing she believes will secure her place in the world: love, marriage, and motherhood. What becomes of a girl who mistakes love for salvation?
4-7th March, Pembroke New Cellars Loosely based on the life of Dido Elizabeth Belle, set a few years after the First World War, Darling Dido is the coming-of-age story of Dido, who is a sixteen-year-old mixed-race girl living in 1920s England. Dido is caught between a desire to conform to white upper-class civility or find her place within the shifting social tides of post-war Britain. But overall, she yearns most deeply for the one thing she believes will secure her place in the world: love, marriage, and motherhood. What becomes of a girl who mistakes love for salvation?
