Mar 1, 2008
Skip Ploss of Wilton directing New Canaan Town Players in Candida
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The Town Players of New Canaan will present George Bernard Shaw’s play, Candida, starting tomorrow, Feb. 29 and running weekends through March 15.
Skip Ploss of Wilton is directing the cast in the performance.
Mr. Ploss graduated from New Canaan High School in 1978, a time when the Town Players were at a crossroads. Already in their 32nd year at the time, the group had to find a permanent home and had begun their search. By 1979 the Town Players identified the defunct recycling center in Waveny Park, formerly the power plant on the Lapham estate, as a possible site and led the way designing and building a 120-seat theater.
Candida will be the Town Players’ 118th production in the Powerhouse.
Mr. Ploss said he hoped to stage “something less slapstick than The Nerd and more serious than Neil Simon.”
Playing Candida Morell and her husband the Reverend James Mavor Morell will be Stamford residents Kimberley Lowden and Michael Day.
Eli Peck of Redding will play Eugene Marchbanks, the poet. It is Marchbanks who impulsively exhorts Candida to choose between Reverend Morell and himself, setting up the climax of Act III.
Portraying Miss Prosperine Garnett will be Victoria Roy of Rowayton.
The Town Players is holding a Wish List birthday party during Candida’s run. In the lobby for each performance will be a birthday cake. To each candle will be attached a wish, varying in value from $10 for something like a new paintbrush to $2,500 to sponsor a production.
Performances will be held Fridays and Saturdays, Feb. 29 and March 1, 7, 8, 14 and 15 at 8 p.m., with Sunday performances on March 2 and 9 at 2:30 p.m.
Reservations: 966-7371
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