Monday, June 20, 2011

Candida

Nice production, good cast , nothing noteworthy.
I am not sure why we decided to to see it again so soon after the Kelly Fox version in 2002. You would think that nearly ten years was enough of a gap, but clearly not!
Claire Julien, Nigel Shawn Williams, Norman Browning and Graeme Somerville are all actors i like. Wade
Bogert O'Brien is definitely some one to watch. But the group did not coalesce and the play fellll flat.

1 comment:

  1. The play is really all about Candida's final declaration and that comes off well, as does really all of the last act; however, before the intermission everyone seemed to be standing around shouting.

    I thought Nigel Shawn Williams was very good, I could believe in his character's charisma and of course you'd do anything Claire Jullien wants. the other actors I did not particularly notice.

    Maybe On the Rocks will rescue my Shavian theatre this year - although that's putting a big burden on a slight thing.

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