Candida

One of Shaw’s most popular comedies looks at romance through a loopy Victorian love triangle–the Rev. James Morrell, a jovial and infuriatingly self-satisfied clergyman; Candida, his charming and wickedly discerning wife; and Eugene Marchbanks, a naive and hysterical boy poet, pining in soulful love sickness for Candida. With his usual collection of eccentrics, breezy arguments and stinging wit, Shaw makes it very clear which really is the “weaker sex.”