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Jupiter is badgered by both, first allowing Aeneas and the Trojan refugees to capsize in Juno’s storm but then granting them safety on Carthaginian stores. Venus, hoping to cure her son’s life-endangering wanderlust, sends Cupid to shoot an arrow of love into Dido...
Presiding over this inferno is the creepily complacent Cupid, played by John Kelly with mesmerizing deliberateness. Far from the cherubic toddler of Valentine’s Day, this pale, stealthy god takes malevolent pleasure in characters’ seduction and subsequent destruction...
Marlowe’s play calls for Cupid to sing two unspecified songs, which composer Laura Jeppensen chose to arrange from Marlowe’s own poetry. Jeppensen’s otherworldly countertenor compositions create some of the most riveting moments of the play and capture its cold cruelty with lines such as: “Love is not full of pity as men say/… Then darkness falls; dark night is Cupid?...
...know that I’m not the only one who sometimes wishes that Cupid would rotate his bow 180 degrees and deliver an arrow to his own face. It’s time to revolutionize the holiday and reclaim it for the masses. Valentine’s Day shouldn’t just be about reinforcing preexisting love affairs; it should be about hooking up with random people and somehow ending up with an unfathomable supply of “Sweethearts” candy. In the end, it is a pagan holiday, so let’s act like...
Forsomeofus, Valentine's Day provides the perfect opportunity to impress the objects of our affection with wine, roses and lavish dinners. But a growing number of proudly cranky rebels, for whom Cupid is more irritant than inspiration, are boldly sharing their sentiments at gatherings honoring "Anti-Valentine's Day"--and now they have a host of products to enhance their message. An unromantic sampler: --By Harriet Barovick...