PYGMALION
by George Bernard Shaw
1 – 10 December 2022 at 8pm; Matinée: Saturday 10 December at 2.30pm
Tickets: £12 on opening night; £14 on all subsequent performances
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The original play behind the musical My Fair Lady. Pygmalion both delighted and scandalised its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw’s feminist views. In Shaw’s hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his ‘creation’ has a mind of her own.
Cast
Eliza Doolittle | Lucinda Banton | |
Professor Henry Higgins | Michael Cooke | |
Colonel Pickering | Jeremy Taylor | |
Alfred Doolittle | Chester Stern | |
Mrs Pearce | Susie Timms | |
Mrs Higgins | Nikki Packham | |
Mrs Eynsford-Hill | Catherine Elliott | |
Clara Eynsford-Hill | Lola Rush-Miller | |
Freddy Eynsford-Hill | Thomas Puttock | |
Parlourmaid | Denise Scales | |
Director | Suzi Whittle |