McLellan Festival: Candide - The Best of all Possible Worlds
Brodick Hall, Isle of Arran, KA27 8DL
Saturday 26th September 2026
A Community Production written and devised by John Harvey inspired by the original piece by Voltaire.
Loosely based on Voltaire’s ‘Candide’, we follow our hero as he confronts love, war, despair, cruelty, famine, ignorance and natural disasters in his struggle to accept his teacher’s belief that all is for the best.
Share our black comedy where, in Brecht’s words “People laugh because they have not heard the bad news yet” and meet the two war-mongers, the one-buttocked woman, the short-sighted army, the volcano family and Professor Pangloss, Candide's tutor, who might well be speaking of the world we live in today.
More info about the McLellan Arts Festival is available here.
Admission £10 (Under 18s free)
Loosely based on Voltaire’s ‘Candide’, we follow our hero as he confronts love, war, despair, cruelty, famine, ignorance and natural disasters in his struggle to accept his teacher’s belief that all is for the best.
Share our black comedy where, in Brecht’s words “People laugh because they have not heard the bad news yet” and meet the two war-mongers, the one-buttocked woman, the short-sighted army, the volcano family and Professor Pangloss, Candide's tutor, who might well be speaking of the world we live in today.
More info about the McLellan Arts Festival is available here.
Admission £10 (Under 18s free)
