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Candida

Forbhreathnú

Drámadóir

George Bernard (GB) Shaw
Suíomh

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

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.
Cinéal Dráma

Drámaí Ginearálta

Líon na Míreanna

Dráma Fada

Cast size

Male

5
Female

1
Total

6

Céad Léiriú

Dáta an Chéad Léirithe

08 December 1903
Ionad an Chéad Léirithe

Princess Theatre

Foireann An Chéad Léirithe
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

Scripteanna Foilsithe

Teideal

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

2003
Foilsithe ag

Penguin
Seoladh

80 Strand Street
London WC2R 0RL
England
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customer.services@penguin.co.uk
Suíomh Idirlín

www.penguin.co.uk
ISBN

0140437940
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Foinse Eolais

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

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