Real life ... Dreams ... the creation of a fair lady
Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Tony Turner
Preview – 11 September 8pm
Season - 12 September – 4 October – Thursday to Saturday 8pm
Matinees – 20 & 27 September and 4 October 2pm
Twilight – 21 and 28 September at 5pm
Directors Workshop/Q&A – TBA
Pygmalion derives its name from the famous story in Ovid's Metamorphoses, in which Pygmalion, disgusted by the loose and shameful lives of the women of his era, decides to live alone and unmarried. With wondrous art, he creates a beautiful statue more perfect than any living woman.
Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion plays on the complex business of human relationships in a social world. Phonetics Professor Henry Higgins tutors the very cockney Eliza Doolittle, not only in the refinement of speech, but also in the refinement of her manner. The results are not quite what were expected!
The extraordinary wit of this master dramatist of the 20th Century cuts away at the artificiality of class distinctions to reveal that human clay can be molded into many shapes.
