George Bernard Shaw's Candida Under the Stars
Bruns Amphitheater (100 Gateway Blvd. Orinda, CA 94563)
- Full Price:
- $35.00 - $51.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $25.50*
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The last date listed for Candida was Thursday August 18, 2011 / 7:30pm.
Goldstar Member Tips
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Tedalinski on What to Wear
Evening can get cold so dress accordingly
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Goldstar Member on What to Wear
Bring heavy jacket and blankets to the show when it gets chilly at night.
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June on Where to Eat
Snack bar has a good array of choices if they don't run out!
27 Goldstar Member Reviews
Barry R.
Well acted directed and staged but even for Shaw the play was a bit thin.Written on Aug 11 2011
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Great acting, nice interpretation, unique venueWritten on Aug 19 2011
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Renee S.
Wonderful show! Actors are fantastic, especially Marchbanks, Morel and Candida. Beautiful set and costumes, witty dialogue, funny scenes. What a lively and enjoyable evening of Shaw!Written on Aug 17 2011
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I loved Candida! It was well acted, extremely funny, accessible, and had great characters and really great lines.Written on Aug 11 2011
I also loved the fact that it was only two hours long. There were three sets of approximately 25 or 30 minutes, and 2 short intermissions. Most plays at Calshakes are closer to 3 hours (which can get difficult to sit through in the cold summer nights)--2 hours was just right!
I highly recommend the pre-show talk, which takes place 45 minutes before showtime.
And, thank you Goldstar--we had terrific seats in the 2nd row!
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More Information About Candida
Website
http://www.calshakes.org/v4/ourplays/2011/candida.html
Description
Candida is Shaw’s brilliant, witty, and trenchant comedy about a morally superior clergyman in turn-of-the-20th-century London, his enigmatically charismatic wife, and the wildly romantic young poet who puts the very foundation of their marriage to the ultimate test.
Cal Shakes Artistic Director Jonathan Moscone, in a return to the works of Shaw following his critically-acclaimed production of Man and Superman in 2007, will direct.
"Candida is endlessly fascinating to me as I continue to discover the complex nuances of each character, and of the play’s highly charged circumstances,” says Moscone. “Underneath the veneer of Shavian humor and wit is a piercingly painted portrait of the sometimes savage undercurrents running through the veins of the seeming complacency of married life.”
The cast of Candida includes Cal Shakes Associate Artist Julie Eccles (The Pastures of Heaven, An Ideal Husband) in the title role and A.C.T. core acting company member Anthony Fusco (Clybourne Park, Prospero in Cal Shakes’ The Tempest (2006)) as Reverend James Morrell. Others in the cast include Nick Gabriel (A.C.T. core company member; Michael Tolliver in the workshop production of Tales of the City) as Eugene Marchbanks; Alexandra Henrikson (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Hell House at St. Ann’s Warehouse) as Miss Proserpine Garnett; Jarion Monroe (Cal Shakes’ The Tempest and Macbeth (1992); twenty seasons at Berkeley Rep) as Mr. Burgess, and Nicholas Pelczar (Titus Andronicus, Macbeth) as Reverend Lexy Mill.
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