Pygmalion
Past productions
- Old Vic Theatre London, Old Vic Theatre, London
- DOT Productions, Multiple locations
- New Theatre, New Theatre, Newtown
- Chameleon’s Web Theatre Company, Tollesbury Community Centre, Mersea Island Community Centre, and other locations
- Headlong/Nuffield Southampton/West Yorkshire Playhouse, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
- Theatre Royal, Norwich
- Garrick Theatre, London
- Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
- American Airlines Theatre, New York (now Todd Haimes Theatre)
- Peter Hall Company, Theatre Royal, Bath, The Old Vic, London, and other locations
- Library Theatre Company, Library Theatre, Manchester
- Bill Kenwright Ltd and Theatre Royal Windsor, Albery Theatre (now Noël Coward Theatre), London and Theatre Royal, Windsor
- Birmingham Repertory Theatre
- New Triad Theatre Company, Theatr Gwynedd, Bangor, tour of Germany and Holland, and other locations
- National Theatre, National Theatre – Olivier, National Theatre
- Kevin Wood Productions and Malvern Festival, Festival Theatre, Malvern and Orchard Theatre, Dartford
- Plymouth Theatre, New York (now Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre) and Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford
- Shaftesbury Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London 1963 – Present Day
- The Young Vic, Young Vic, London, King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, and other locations
- The Young Vic, Young Vic, London
- Churchill Theatre, Churchill Theatre, Bromley
- Salisbury Arts Theatre Ltd, Salisbury Playhouse
- Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham Repertory Theatre
- Farnham Repertory Company, Redgrave Theatre, Farnham
- Cambridge Theatre Company, Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon
- Nottingham Playhouse Company, Nottingham Playhouse
- Palace Theatre Watford, Watford Palace Theatre
- Albery Theatre (now Noël Coward Theatre), London
- Bristol Old Vic – Theatre Royal
- Theatre Royal, Bath
- Orchard Theatre Company, Barnstaple, Devon, Tour – UK
- Ravinia Festival, Illinois, USA
- Birmingham Repertory Theatre
- Birmingham Repertory Theatre
- Windsor Theatre Company, Theatre Royal, Windsor
- Liverpool Playhouse, Liverpool Playhouse
- Colchester Repertory Company, Colchester Repertory Theatre
- Torbay Theatre Company, Pavilion Theatre, Torquay
- Watford Civic Theatre Trust, Watford Palace Theatre
- Farnham Repertory Company, Castle Theatre, Farnham
- Colchester Repertory Company, Colchester Repertory Theatre
- Swansea Repertory Company, Grand Theatre, Swansea
- Salisbury Arts Theatre Ltd, Salisbury Playhouse
- Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham (now The Alexandra)
- Marley Youth Centre, Marley Youth Centre
- Carl Clopet Productions and Harold French Ltd, Pembroke Theatre, Croydon and Birmingham Hippodrome
- Hornchurch Repertory Company, Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch
- Colchester Repertory Company, Colchester Repertory Theatre
- Windsor Repertory Company, Theatre Royal, Windsor
- Windsor Theatre, Salford
A play by George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological character who fell in love with one of his sculptures which later came to life.
It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913.
Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at a ball by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women’s independence.
Shaw mentioned that the character of Professor Henry Higgins was inspired by several British professors of phonetics: Alexander Melville Bell, Alexander J. Ellis, Tito Pagliardini, but above all, the cantankerous Henry Sweet.