Pygmalion
“Our production of PYGMALION has (by a not-so-curious chance) coincided with the first rush for tickets for MY FAIR LADY at Drury Lane.” ‘Curtain Up’ vol 17 no 4, 14th October 1957
Cast & Crew
Cast
| Alfred Doolittle | Wally Patch |
|---|---|
| Bystander | Maurice Lawson |
| Clara Eynsford-Hill | Sherlie Dane |
| Colonel Pickering | Bernard Warwick |
| Eliza Doolittle | Geraldine McEwan |
| Freddy Eynsford-Hill | Jeremy Longhurst |
| Henry Higgins | Peter Gray |
| Mrs Eynsford-Hill | Elizabeth McKeowen |
| Mrs Higgins | Jane Eccles |
| Mrs Pearce | Barbara Cochran |
| Parlour Maid | Muriel Ridley |
| Sarcastic Bystander | Cyril Douglas |
Crew | |
| Director | Hugh Goldie |
| Electrician | Cyril Douglas |
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Play description
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.
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