Pygmalion
From: Friday, 9th July 2010
To: Friday, 27 August 2010
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Synopsis
Shaw's dramatisation of a Cockney flower girl's metamorphosis into a lady is not only a delightful fantasy but also has much to say about social class, money, spiritual freedom and womens' independence. Its combination of ideas and social comment, together with its rich comic characterization, make it one of the most enduring and entertaining of English comedies. Henry Higgins, Professor of Linguistics and confirmed bachelor, wagers that within six months he will transform flower seller, Eliza Doolittle, into a lady who can take her place in high society. Shaw's masterpiece is both brilliantly funny and a devastating critique of the English class system. This play formed the basis of "My Fair Lady".
Our Review:
20 July 2010
Shaw's best known play makes for an interesting contrast with Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, shown at the matinee before this. Both works were written within a few years of each other by Irish socialists but Shaw's drawing room comedy seems a million miles away from Tressell's milieu.
Director/designer Philip Prowse's ornate staging has the look and feel of a Victorian toy theatre; it’s opulent but there’s a coldness at the heart.
Rupert Everett doesn’t look comfortable as Higgins. He's older than Shaw’s description, but he acts younger – in fact, he acts too young, looking like he’s been expecting the call to play Hamlet rather than a phonetics professor.
His Higgins is rich in petulance and sulkiness. Shaw says that his irascibility should be tempered with good humour – there’s little sign of that in Everett. The final scene with him dressed in black, brooding silently as Eliza marries Freddie, looks for all the world like Ha...
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Cast
Candida Benson (Clara Eynsford Hill)
Rebecca Birch (Parlourmaid)
Suzie Blake (Mrs Pearce)
Stephanie Cole (Mrs Higgins)
Marty Cruickshank (Mrs Eynsford Hill)
Phil Davis (Alfred Doolittle)
Freya Dominic (Parlourmaid/Passer-by)
Rupert Everett (Henry Higgins)
Peter Eyre (Colonel Pickering)
Brendan Hooper (Bystander)
Peter Sandys-Clarke (Freddy Eynsford Hill)
Honeysuckle Weeks (Eliza Doolittle)
Tristram Wymark (Bystander)
Creative
George Bernard-Shaw (Author)
Kenwood (Corporate Sponsor)
DeLonghi (Corporate Sponsor)
Chichester Festival Theatre (Producer)
Philip Prowse (Director)
Philip Prowse (Design)
Gerry Jenkinson (Lighting)
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