Marlowe

If any of you splendid readers are in the London area in the next week, I'd recommend wending your way to the state apartments of Kensingon Palace, where the theatrical group Angels in the Architecture are performing a promenade version of Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage. I went last night: it's generally excellent, and seeing the tale of a doomed royal's love works well amid the neo-classical corridors and rooms where Mary II, Victoria, and, more recently, queen of hearts / tedious sycophant (delete as you wish) Diana walked. For me, the super-camp Cupid, dressed in a sailor's outfit, and Venus as terrifying business exec, were great. And the bloke playing Aeneas is in EastEnders, which lends a certain Greater London frisson to the whole. But the staircases and ceilings steal the show. Details here.