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
A Bystander | Christopher Campbell |
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Alfred Doolittle | Michael Bryant |
Clara Eynsford-Hill | Hermione Norris |
Colonel Pickering | Robin Bailey |
Eliza Doolittle | Frances Barber |
Extra | Roger Bingham |
Extra | Laura Brook |
Extra | Ultan Ely O Carroll |
Extra | Mary Mitchell |
Extra | Nick Mollo |
Extra | Theresa Petts |
Freddy Eynsford-Hill | Simon Coates |
Henry Higgins | Alan Howard |
Host | Doyne Byrd |
Hostess | Judith Coke |
Mrs Eynsford-Hill | Polly Adams |
Mrs Higgins | Gillian Barge |
Mrs Pearce | Alison Fiske |
Nepommuck | Gertan Klauber |
Parlour-maid | Judy Damas |
Sarcastic Bystander | Seymour Matthews |
Second Constable | William Cox |
Taximan | Martin Chamberlain |
Crew | |
Assistant Stage Manager | Paul Greaves |
Assistant Stage Manager | Emma B Lloyd |
Assistant to the Lighting Designer | Archie Jenkins |
Composer | Dominic Muldowney |
Costume Supervisor | Wendy Griffiths |
Deputy Stage Manager | Angela Bissett |
Design Assistant | Guy Nicholson |
Designer | William Dudley |
Dialect Coach | Joan Washington |
Director | Howard Davies |
Lighting Designer | Mark Henderson |
Movement | Jane Gibson |
Photos | Richard Mildenhall |
Production Manager | Annie Gosney |
Sound | Jonathan Suffolk |
Staff Director | Gemma Bodinetz |
Stage Manager | Ernest Hall |
Wig/Makeup Supervisor Olivier Theatre | Peter Grice |
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