Bernard shaw's candida5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() It’s a lively reimagining that honors the company’s mission of promoting Shaw’s humanitarian ideals and recognizing their universal relevance across time, place, and community, with a serious message that underlies the smart farcical humor. In the new updated production by Gingold Theatrical Group, directed by GTG Founding Artistic Director David Staller and now playing a limited engagement at Theatre Row, the funny fast-paced one-act feminist rom-com has been moved to NYC’s Harlem Renaissance in 1929 (as suggested by Staller’s late friend Stephen Sondheim), when the upper Manhattan neighborhood emerged as a center of Black culture and a cornerstone in the movement for social and economic equality, and the Church was transferring popular clergymen to underserved neighborhoods with the hopes of bringing parishioners back. ![]() When playwright George Bernard Shaw created his original romantic comedy Candida in 1894, written in response to Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House and first published in his Plays Pleasant collection in 1898, he set it in the London suburbs of his own Victorian era. ![]()
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