Dido of Idaho
“Hypnotic to watch. A blistering, hysterical look at trauma and regret.” -Broadway World
2025 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award Winner, Best Original Writing
Ensemble Studio Theatre, dir. Mikhaela Mahony. Photo by Gerry Goldstein
Winner of the 2025 LA Drama Critics Circle Awards for Best Original Writing, Best Direction, and Best Featured Performance.
When a love affair goes brutally awry, a hard-drinking musicologist seeks asylum with her estranged evangelical mother.
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“Great across the board. Inspired by the plight of Virgil’s tale of Dido, but Rosebrock compassionately delivers her modern heroine a more meaningful outcome.” —Pauline Ademek, Arts Beat LA
“Hypnotic to watch. A blistering, hysterical look at trauma and regret.” —Harker Jones, Broadway World
“Vibrant, outré humor. Unwinds not at all as you might expect. Beth Henley infused with a few drops of Martin McDonagh’s deranged fierceness. Rosebrock has spun a comedy that freely intermingles laughter, frustration, tears and shock.” —Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times
“Careens from high-minded laughs to cutthroat rage to soft-edged dreamscape, with Rosebrock embracing feminism even as she skewers it. She takes the work of Virgil, spikes it with shards of Edward Albee, doses it with a shot of Tennessee Williams, then shifts that whole male canon of Western thinking into a female perspective. The result is a crash course in self-respect and surviving betrayal, be it romantic, familial, or self-inflicted.” —Stan Friedman, Off Off Online
“Rosebrock pushes her comedy into darker-than-dark territory with bold flourishes, including rapid-fire dialogue and a mind-bending second-act twist.” —Regina Robbins, Time Out New York