Pygmalion
Eliza Doolittle aspires to more than selling flowers on the streets of Covent Garden.
After a chance meeting with Professor Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering, she finds herself the subject of a rash bet to pass her off as a lady amongst the great and the good of London society.
Cast & Crew
Cast
| Alfred Doolittle | John Marquez |
|---|---|
| Aristid Karpathy | Kieran Smith |
| Clara Eynsford Hill | Lizzy Connolly |
| Colonel Pickering | Michael Gould |
| Eliza Doolittle | Patsy Ferran |
| Ensemble | Steven Dykes |
| Ensemble | Liz Jadav |
| Ensemble | Caroline Moroney |
| Ensemble | Rohan Rakhit |
| Freddy Eynsford Hill | Taheen Modak |
| Henry Higgins | Bertie Carvel |
| Mrs Eynsford Hill | Grace Cookey-Gam |
| Mrs Higgins | Sylvestra Le Touzel |
| Mrs Pearce | Penny Layden |
Crew | |
| Assistant Stage Manager | Lily Wanqiao Li |
| Baylis Assistant Director | Jack Bradfield |
| Casting | Jessica Ronane CDG |
| Company Stage Manager | David Curl |
| Composer & Arranger | Will Stuart |
| Costume Supervisor | Sarah Bowern |
| Deputy Stage Manager | Rebecca Maltby |
| Dialect | William Conacher |
| Director | Richard Jones |
| Lighting Designer | Adam Silverman |
| Movement | Sarah Fahie |
| Props Supervisor | Marcus Hall Props |
| Set & Costume Designer | Stewart Laing |
| Sound Designer | Tony Gayle |
| Voice | Charlie Hughes-D’Aeth |
| Wigs, Hair and Make-Up Supervisor | Keisha-Paris Banya |
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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.
Photo credits
- Pygmalion by Manuel Harlan, Creative Commons Attribution
- Pygmalion by Manuel Harlan, Creative Commons Attribution
- Pygmalion by Manuel Harlan, Creative Commons Attribution
- Pygmalion by Manuel Harlan, Creative Commons Attribution
- Pygmalion by Manuel Harlan, Creative Commons Attribution
- Pygmalion by Manuel Harlan, Creative Commons Attribution
- Pygmalion by Manuel Harlan, Creative Commons Attribution
- Pygmalion by Manuel Harlan, Creative Commons Attribution
- Pygmalion by Manuel Harlan, Creative Commons Attribution
- Pygmalion by Manuel Harlan, Creative Commons Attribution
- Pygmalion by Manuel Harlan, Creative Commons Attribution
- Pygmalion by Manuel Harlan, Creative Commons Attribution
- Pygmalion by Manuel Harlan, Creative Commons Attribution
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