Pygmalion
Having been seen at Theatr Gwynedd and Epsom Playhouse, this production toured Germany and Holland prior to a four-week run at the Chelsea Centre in London.
Cast & Crew
Cast
| Alfred Doolittle | David Goodwin |
|---|---|
| Eliza Doolittle | Debbie Radcliffe |
| Henry Higgins | Jonathan Rigby |
| Colonel Pickering | Ray Gardner
(August 1993) |
| Freddy | Toby Rolt
(August 1993) |
| Mrs Eynsford-Hill | Clare Cooper
(August 1993) |
| Mrs Higgins | Brenda Dowsett
(August 1993) |
| Mrs Pearce / Clara | Louise Dawson
(August 1993) |
| Colonel Pickering | Nigel Harris
(January – August 1994) |
| Freddy / Nepommuck | Simon Furness
(January – February 1994) |
| Mrs Eynsford-Hill / Hostess | Sally Hubble
(January – February 1994) |
| Mrs Higgins | Anne Chauveau
(January – February 1994) |
| Mrs Pearce / Clara | Alison Rowles
(January – February 1994) |
| Clara / Hostess | Sally Hubble
(July – August 1994) |
| Freddy / Nepommuck | Armen Gregory
(July – August 1994) |
| Mrs Eynsford-Hill | Maxine O’Reilly
(July – August 1994) |
| Mrs Higgins | Anna Kirke
(July – August 1994) |
| Mrs Pearce | Hannah Dickinson
(July – August 1994) |
Crew | |
| Director | John Strehlow |
| Stage Manager | Dave McCabe |
| Designer | John Strehlow |
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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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