Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Performances:
- 19:30 Wednesday 16 January 2013 at The Drama Studio
- 19:30 Thursday 17 January 2013 at The Drama Studio
- 19:30 Friday 18 January 2013 at The Drama Studio
- 19:30 Saturday 19 January 2013 at The Drama Studio
About the show
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 an ambassador's garden party 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.
Cast:
Henry Higgins | John Ansari |
professor of phonetics | |
Eliza Doolittle | Johannah Cook |
a cockney flower girl | |
Colonel Pickering | Neil Sullivan |
of the Indian army | |
Mrs Higgins | Alison Munro |
Henry’s mother | |
Alfred Doolittle | Ken Rowe |
a dustman, Eliza’s father | |
Mrs Eynsford-Hill | Vicky Dawes |
worried about money | |
Clara Eynsford-Hill | Emma Wass |
Freddie Eynsford-Hill | Michael Dempsey |
Mrs Pearce | Emma Portus |
Professor Higgins’s housekeeper | |
Maud | Joanne Gillan |
Mrs Higgins’s maid | |
Horace | Martin Nowacki |
a bystander | |
Wilfred | Dan Wild |
another bystander | |
Bert | Steven Garner |
a third bystander | |
Maisie | Joanne Gillan |
bystander number four |