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From: The Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Date: 20050627
Author:Lynch, Kevin

Byline: Kevin Lynch The Capital Times

SPRING GREEN -- George Bernard Shaw created a love triangle of constantly shifting weight and tension in his domestic comedy "Candida" and the triangle came pulsing to life Saturday night on the stage of American Players Theatre.

Takeshi Kata's superbly expressive set seems to almost creak as power shifts among the three main characters. The stage juts oddly into the audience to a point where characters arrive at moments of serious and mock anxiety. The backdrop wall lists precariously to one side, and hanging on it is a large ...

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