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 | |
