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Thursday, February 5, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
'Candida' adds insight to Victorian love triangle
Guthrie Theater touring company brings famous George Bernard Shaw play to the University of Kansas
Mary O'Brady portrays Candida in the George Bernard Shaw production presented by the Guthrie Theater.
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"Candida" will be perform at 8 p.m. Sunday at the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall. Tickets are on sale at the Murphy Hall box office. All seats are available. Admission is $10 for students, $12 and $10 for the general public, and $11 and $9 for senior citizens.
By JERRI NIEBAUM
A play pleasant.
That's what George Bernard Shaw called "Candida," his 1895 comedy being performed by the Guthrie Theater touring company at the University of Kansas Sunday.
"It's about men and women loving each other," Howard Dallin, director of the play, said.
Candida, an extraordinarily independent 30-year-old Victorian woman, faces two men who try to win her favor in a love triangle.
Eugene Marchbanks, an 18-year-old poet, comes to visit Candida and her husband and falls hopelessly in love with Candida. With an articulate charm, Marchbanks tries to convince Candida that her marriage is ill-fated and empty. Candida's husband Morell, a socialist preacher, thinks his wife will stay with him because of her virtue.
Dallin said Shaw appreciated the power and intellect of women. Candida takes control of her situation in the love triangle, straightouts out the two men, and chooses between them.
"Her outlook on life is quite contem诺ary," Dallin said.
"Candida" was written over 90 years ago, but it still is popular because of its enduring themes and traditional characters, he said.
puritanical." Dallin said. "He would never write a four-letter word."
He said the play was funny because the audience could identify with the characters.
"We laugh with them, not at them," Dallin said.
Dallin said his production of "Candida" was less traditional than others, even though he used Victorian costumes, sets and language.
"Our Candida is younger," he said.
"The man's sexier than it is tradi-
tional," he added.
Deirde Clancy, costume and set designer, dresses the female cast members in whalebone corsets that help them to move the way women did at the turn of the century. The men wear itchy wool suits that make them scratch authentically.
"George Bernard Shaw was very
Dallin said the show would be enjoyable for anyone between the ages of 12 and 54, whether they were seasoned theater-goers or novices.
“It’s non-threatening, but it’s always interesting,” he said. “It’s emotionally stimulating. It’s intellectually stimulating, but it’s fun. It’s weird.”
The Gusthrie Theater tours with 20 people, including six cast members, two understudies and a crew. From the Gusthrie Theater will visit about 70 sites in 30 states.
Dallin said keeping the company's energy up was not a problem.
"They're professionals." he said.
They know that every audience is the same.
Dallin, a free-lance director, agreed to tour with the Guthrie Theater after its successful performance on its hometown stage in the spring.
Peter Vogt, left, and David Pierce, right, members of the Guthrie Theater touring group, act in a scene from "Candida," which will be performed Sunday in Crafton-Preyer Theatre at Murphy Hall.
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