Pygmalion
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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.
Cast & Crew
Cast
1st Bystander | Roy Byford |
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2nd Bystander | Alexander Sarner |
Alfred Doolittle | Edmund Gurney |
Colonel Pickering | Philip Merivale |
Eliza Doolittle | Mrs Patrick Campbell |
Freddy Eynsford-Hill | Algernon Greig |
Maid | Irene Delisse |
Miss Clara Eynsford-Hill | Margaret Busse |
Mrs Eynsford-Hill | Carlotta Addison |
Mrs Eynsford-Hill (Replacement) | Alma Murray |
Mrs Higgins | Rosamund Mayne Young |
Mrs Pearce | Geraldine Olliffe |
Professor Henry Higgins | Herbert Beerbohm Tree |
Crew | |
Composer | Adolf Schmid |
Designer | Denis Mackail |
Director | Herbert Beerbohm Tree |
- Source: University of Bristol Theatre Collection
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