Dido's Bar | Highlights

Dido’s Bar is an epic retelling of Virgil’s Aeneid, created and performed by a multilingual international ensemble of actor-musicians, bringing to life the classic myth of migration, love, and assimilation, through the eyes of refugees today.
The work is inspired by director Josephine Burton’s encounter with Kurdish Iranian refugee and now Finnish resident, composer Marouf Majidi and is written by Hattie Naylor.
Dido’s Bar opened in London’s historic Royal Docks before touring Manchester, Leicester, Portsmouth, and Oxford.
"Director Burton makes inventive use of the venue’s immense space, with scenes unfolding behind a well-stocked bar, on stage with a tremendous live band, and at various tables scattered amongst the audience." (John Cutler, The Reviews Hub)
"Moving, sensitively written, expertly directed and brilliantly-acted." (The Plays The Thing)
"Dido’s Bar was an intense, immersive and magical experience. Indulgently compelling and overflowing with empathy, it has everything from irresistible and hypnotic characters to an unfailingly striking and eclectic score." (Old Fire Station)
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Dido’s Bar was produced by Dash Arts with imPOSSIBLE Producing.
Dido's Bar was co-produced in the UK with the Royal Docks Team, OCM (Oxford Contemporary Music) and Journeys Festival and co-commissioned by OCM, with additional support from Arts Council England, Backstage Trust, The Foyle Foundation, Projekt, Cockayne - Grants for the Arts, The London Community Foundation, Genesis Foundation, Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland, The Marchus Trust, TINFO - Theatre Info Finland, Austin and Hope Pilkington, Royal Victoria Hall Foundation, The Leche Trust and individual donors.
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Such a great show!