Theatre review: Candida - frustrated vicar seeks good times
Achaise longue stretches, like a languorous temptation, across the middle of Reverend James Morrell's drawing room. In Candida " George Bernard Shaw's rarely staged yet surprisingly gripping 1894 portrait of a marriage, revived at Bath Theatre Royal by director Simon Godwin " we first see the cleric beavering at his desk, apparently deeply contented.