Kara Tointon & Rupert Everett at Pygmalion Q&A
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Everett & Tointon Talk Plain at Pygmalion Q&A

Just under 300 Whatsonstage.com theatregoers made their way to the Garrick Theatre last night to see Rupert Everett and Kara Tointon take on two of George Bernard Shaw’s best known creations, Henry Higgings and Eliza Doolittle, in the ever popular Pygmalion. We were also joined by both Everett and Tointon along with several other members of the cast after the production for a wonderfully insightful and amusing Q&A.

Ahead of its time in its exploration of sexual politics and tackling the issue of class restrictions head on Pygmalion is the story of egocentric Professor of Phonetics, Henry Higgins who makes a bet with his friend, Colonel Pickering, that he can transform the manners and speech of Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle and pass her off as a society lady. Everett and Tointon have a wonderful on stage chemistry that brings out the complexities of the Higgins/Doolittle relationship and Tointon, who makes her West End debut in this production, should be applauded for her very capable performance in this difficult role. Michael Feast does extremely well as Alfred Doolittle considering he only joined the cast three days ago due to a virus that has left initially cast Simon Ward unable to undertake the role.

With press night fast approaching and a new cast member to rehearse the cast have been hard at work fine-tuning their performances but took time-out after a really long day to chat with us after the show. Everett, who played Higgins at Chichester last year told us how this production is different and why he was happy to resume the role while Kara Tointon told us about being new to the cast and how she prepared for the role – especially the accents. We also learnt about Shaw’s epilogue for the piece and what he envisaged as the future on Wimpole Street - it certainly surprised a few of us!

Please do feel free to email your comments and thoughts about the play and the evening through to feedback@whatsonstage.com, we love to hear from you.

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- Laura Norman

- by Whatsonstage.com Outing

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