![]() ![]() In brief, an impertinent young cuckoo has arrived in the nest to strip away Morell’s pretensions and leave him vulnerable. Aarles effectively contrasts Morell’s smug self-admiration, be it over the perfection of his marriage or his public persona, with the quivering bundle of uncertainties that emerges once he’s accused by Eugene of being an unworthy husband. The play’s ironies start emerging in Jeffrey Aarles’s performance as the increasingly beleaguered vicar. But Laurel Smith’s discerning production finds deeper currents in the central situation - which involves the youthful Eugene’s infatuation with Candida, an infatuation so intense and so openly critical of Morell that it leaves the latter increasingly insecure about her love. On the surface, this may seem no more than a comedy about the unsettling impact of a romantic young poet named Eugene Marchbanks when he enters the lives of James Morell, a cleric whose Socialist convictions and gift for rhetoric have won him public prominence, and Morell’s beguiling wife, Candida. Its current production of Candida, Bernard Shaw’s 1894 play about turmoil within the household of an Anglican vicar, is no exception. PERTH, Ontario - One of the pleasures of an Ottawa Valley summer is Perth’s Classic Theatre Festival, which has an impressive track record for mounting quality fare. Classic Theatre Festival delivers a worthy Candida ![]()
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