Pygmalion
by Bernard Shaw
Directed by Nick Johnson
April 2005
Thursday 21st at 7.45 pm
Friday 22nd at 7.45 pm
Saturday 23rd at 7.45pm
There are some pictures on Pygmalion gallery page
"You squashed cabbage leaf... you incarnate insult to the English language: I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba!"
Professor Henry Higgins takes a bet offered by a fellow linguist, Colonel Pickering, to pass off Eliza Doolittle as a Duchess within six months. There’s just a small problem - Eliza is a common Covent Garden flower seller who can barely string a coherent sentence together. Teaching Eliza to speak properly is one thing, teaching her how to be a lady is quite another.
Better known through its adaptation as the musical ‘My Fair Lady’, this classic play is a comedy of manners, written by an Irishman who was obsessed with perfecting the usage and pronunciation of the English language.
Act I
The Portico of St. Paul's Covent Garden,
11.15 pm
Act II
Professor Higgin's Laboratory, Wimpole Street,
the following morning, 11.00 am
Act III
The Drawing Room, Mrs Higgin's Flat on Chelsea Embankment,
several months and many lessons later
Act IV
Professor Higgin's Laboratory, Wimpole Street,
several months later, the night of the Ambassador's Ball, midnight
Act V
The Drawing Room, Mrs Higgin's Flat on Chelsea Embankment,
the following morning
| Cast | |
| Clara Eynsford Hill | Shamim Rahman |
| Mrs Eynsford Hill | Rose Freeland |
| A Bystander | Paul Manel |
| Freddy Eynsford Hill | Ciaran Ward |
| Eliza Doolittle | Ruth Crawford |
| Colonel Pickering | Alan Jobson |
| Henry Higgins | Michael Reece |
| A Sarcastic Bystander | Kirsty Lincoln |
| A Taximan | Robert Roemer |
| Mrs Pearce | Paola Burgess |
| Alfred Doolittle | Spencer Clayton |
| Mrs Higgins | Margaret Johnson |
| Parlourmaid | Catherine Walker |
| other parts | members of the company |
| Crew | |
| Director | Nick Johnson |
| Company Management | Anne Davies |
| Stage Management | Robert Roemer |
| assisted by | Anne Davies |
| Paul Manel | |
| Kirsty Lincoln | |
| Catherine Walker | |
| Prompt | Betty Robertson |
| Lighting | Brian Clayfield |
| Costume | Jenny Sparks |
| assisted by | Paola Burgess |
| Kirsty Lincoln | |
| Set Design & Construction | John Savage |
| Robert Roemer | |
| Front of House | Mike Sparks |
| Box Office | Betty Burgess |
