Set and Costume Design, Dido, Queen of Carthage. Dido is Rae Smith's ninth collaboration with Neil Bartlett (Oliver Twist, Prince of Homburg, The Servant, Cause Célèbre, Sarrasine, Mrs. Warren's Profession, A Christmas Carol, and The Letter) and 101st design. Work previously seen in the US includes The Weir (Conor McPherson, Broadway), Juno and the Paycock (Roundabout Theatre), The Street of Crocodiles (Theatre de Complicité at the Lincoln Center Festival), The Visit (Theatre de Complicité at Spoleto Festival), and Dinner (Ralph Ralph/Jacobs Pillow at Spoleto). Her wide range of theatre work includes classical (The Phoenician Women, Henry IV, Cymbeline, Royal Shakespeare Company); modern (Conor McPherson's Shining City, Dublin Carol, and Joe Penall's Some Voices and Presence, The Royal Court:); and experimental: (Silence Silence, Silence, Mladinsko Theatre, Slovenia and Fiat Medea, Kosmokinetical Theatre of Red Pilot, former Yugoslavia). Current work includes A Midsummer Night's Dream (La Monnaie Opera House, Brussels) and Cervantes' Pedro the Great Pretender (RSC, West End). Upcoming work includes Theatre of Blood (with Improbable Theatre, Royal National Theatre), As You Like It (RSC), and The Ring cycle for Opera National du Rhin, Strasbourg.
American Repertory Theatre