Pygmalion
Henry Higgins is a professor of phonetics who bets his colleague Colonel Pickering that streetwise flower girl, Eliza Dolittle, can pass for a duchess if only she can be taught to speak properly. Higgins' supreme self-confidence is, however, quickly rattled when he discovers that his lively protegée has a mind of her own.
Shaw's dramatisation of the Cockney flower girl's metamorphosis into a lady is both a fantasy and a platform for his views on social class, money and women's independence. It is a timeless tragicomic tale which has inspired film and musical adaptations around the world since 1912. Given the very close relationship between Shaw and the People's Theatre it seems appropriate to begin our centenary season with one of his best-loved works.
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Production photographs by Jim Mohan
| Cast | |
| Clara Eynsford Hill | Alison Carr |
| Mrs Eynsford Hill | Karen Elliott |
| The Bystander | Jake Wilson Craw |
| Freddy Eynsford Hill | Sean Burnside |
| Eliza Dolittle | Anna Dobson |
| Colonel Pickering | Steve Robertson |
| Henry Higgins | Roger Liddle |
| Mrs Pearce | Kate Wilkins |
| Alfred Dolittle | Keith Wigham |
| Mrs Higgins | Val Russell |
| The Parlourmaid | Emily Dunlop |
| Production Team |
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| Director |
Maggie Childs |
| Assistant Director | Kay Worswick |
| Stage Manager | Catherine Edwards |
| Set Design | Leah Page |
| Set Construction | Sands Dobson, Leah Page |
| Set Painter | Rachel Holland |
| Lighting | Jerry Cooper, Sian Thorpe, Tim Swinton |
| Sound | Richard Lee, Ian Morrison, Dave Harvey |
| Wardrobe | Dianne Edwards, Katie Watson |
| Properties | Leah Page, Rachel Holland, Chris Elliott |
| Technical Crew | David Bailey, Lisa Harrison, David Winterborn |
| Production Assistant | Nicky Dexter |
| Hair and Wigs | Wiggy and Sal |
