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Candida

OVERVIEW

Playwright

George Bernard (GB) Shaw
Setting

St. Dominic's Parsonage, Victoria Park, London
Synopsis

Candida is the beautiful wife of vicar, James Morell in her early thirties. Eugene Machbanks an aspiring poet of 18 imagines himself to be in love with her and she tries to steer a moral course between her self-righteous husband and her impressionable young suitor.
Play Type

Plays General

Number Of Acts

Full-Length

Cast size

Male

5
Female

1
Total

6

Original Production

Date of First Production

08 December 1903
Original Venue

Princess Theatre

Original Cast
Candida	Dorothy Donnelly
The Rev. James Mavor Morell	Dodson Mitchell
Mr. Burgess	Herbert Standing
Proserpine Garnett	Louise Closser Hale
The Rev. Alexander Mill	Ernest Lawford
Eugene Marchbanks	Arnold Daly

Published Scripts

Title

Plays Pleasant: Arms and the Man; Candida; the Man of Destiny; You Never Can Tell
Year

2003
Published By

Penguin
Address

80 Strand Street
London WC2R 0RL
England
Email

customer.services@penguin.co.uk
Website

www.penguin.co.uk
ISBN

0140437940
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Rights Information

Territory

All Territories
Rights Type

All Rights
Contact

Society of Authors
Address

84 Drayton Gardens
London
SW10 9SB
England
Phone

+44 (0)20 7373 6642
Email

estates@societyofauthors.org
Website

www.societyofauthors.org

Source Of Information

Information from New York Times coverage and the Internet Broadway Database.

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