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Candide: Lady Cunegonde
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"Candide is the central character," Fitz-Simons points out. "He is, as his name would suggest, an open book. He's naïve and trusting and tremendously in love with his beautiful cousin Cunégonde [Catherine Anderson]. Cunégonde's vain and self-absorbed brother Maximilian is played by Drexel Heard II, and the serving wench Paquette is played by Sandi Sullivan. The faithful Old Lady who ends up being Cunégonde's duenna, is played by Maggie Bunce. Then there is an ensemble of 16 who play about 90 other roles over the course of the evening."
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That night, Candide and Paquette escape into the jungle of South America and, as luck would have it, stumble upon the perfect city of El Dorado. Here everything is quite magnificent! The streets are made of diamonds! The animals can not only talk, they can sing as well! Paradise... is tiring, and eventually, after loading two sheep with gold and jewels, Candide and Paquette return to Cartagena only to learn that the pirates have taken Cunegonde to Constantinople. The Governor offers Candide a boat to pursue the pirates, which he readily accepts, only to learn after the governor has made off with the sheep and the gold that the boat is full of holes!
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Candide purchased the two slaves and continued on with them toward Canstantinople. There they found Cunegonde and the old woman. However, Cunegonde was no longer beautiful, but shrewish and ugly. Yet once again Candide professed his love and desire to marry her. The brother again raged, so Candide returned him to the galley and back to slavery.
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Candide was greatly astonished and delighted to find his beloved, and did not inquire too closely into the source of her great good fortune. Their joyous reunion was interrupted by the rich Jew; in the course of a heated struggle that ensued, Candide accidentally caused the Jew to be impaled on his own sword. Immediately thereafter the Grand Inquisitor arrived in his turn. Confronted with the man who had had him flogged, hanged his dear master, and ravished his beloved (repeatedly, as she reminded him), Candide lost little time in dispatching His Holiness. The old lady returned, horrified to see what had been wrought in the few minutes she had left the lovers alone, and counseled immediate flight to Cadiz if their necks were to be saved. Cunegonde delayed just long enough to gather all her jewels, but on the road to Cadiz ... the jewels were stolen by a Franciscan friar, to their great disappointment.
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Over the years at the castle, Candide adopted dear Pangloss’ optimism. However, his bliss was not to be. Candide loon became infatuated with the beauty of Cunegonde, and one day had an intimate encounter with her in the castle. The noble Baron witnessed this scene and drove his daughter’s young suitor out of the house.
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The voyage proved uneventful, save for the ship being boarded by Barbary pirates, all of Candide's relief party being killed or drowned, and Cunegonde and the old lady being taken captive. Candide himself did manage to reach the Jesuit post in Montevideo, where much to his amazement he discovered his old friends Paquette and Maximilian among the Jesuits. They too had miraculously survived the Westphalian war and eventually been taken prisoner and brought to the slave market in Cartagena, Colombia, where the great beauty of Maximilian, disguised as a woman, had attracted the eye of the lecherous governor who bought Maximilian for himself. Upon discovering the deception the governor was most annoyed and would have had Maximilian hanged, but in a great show of mercy handed him over to the Jesuits instead. Accompanied by the dutiful Paquette, who provided rewarding female company to the holy brethren, he had ended up in the very mission which Candide had come to defend. Maximilian was overjoyed to discover that Cunegonde still lived, but greatly annoyed to find that Candide still had every intention of marrying her, should he ever find her again.
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