Pygmalion
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 12, 2011
Closed Sep 3, 2011
Opened May 12, 2011
Closed Sep 3, 2011
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Starring Kara Tointon and Rupert Everett.
Egocentric Professor of Phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend, the amiable Colonel Pickering, that he can transform the manners and speech of Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle and pass her off as a lady in society.
Bernard Shaw's ever-entertaining dramatic tour de force is a provocative assault on the sexual politics, educational limitations and class structure of his day. But peppered with his trademark wit and classic style, it is also beguilingly funny.
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Philip Prowse's production of George Bernard Shaw's
Pygmalion, now at the Garrick Theatre, tries to explore the darker aspects of the work, but the result is a fairly tepid piece of theater. Too often, the production does not seem to fully engage with the richness of Shaw's text.
Spotting a ragged Covent Garden flower girl with a vowel-mangling cockney accent, cantankerous professor of phonetics Henry Higgins (Rupert Everett) vows to his friend Colonel Pickering (the amiable Peter Eyre) that he could improve her speech to the point where she might pass as a duchess at an ambassador's ball. When the young girl, Eliza Doolittle (Kara Tointon) comes to him seeking elocution lessons, she bec[...]