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Pygmalion

Pygmalion

Limited
9 July - 27 August
Festival Theatre
By Bernard Shaw
With Rupert Everett Stephanie Cole
Susie Blake  Phil Davis  Peter Eyre and Honeysuckle Weeks
 
'Philip Prowse has brought George Bernard Shaw's greatest play alive again.'

Five Stars, The Sunday Telegraph
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'Everett is a hypnotic stage presence.'
Four Stars, The Times
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Egocentric Professor of Phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend, the amiable Colonel Pickering, that he can transform the manners and speech of Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle and pass her off as a lady in society.

Bernard Shaw’s ever-entertaining dramatic tour de force is a provocative assault on the sexual politics, educational limitations and class structure of his day. But peppered with his trademark wit and classic style, it is also beguilingly funny.

Rupert Everett (Blithe Spirit, Another Country, The Vortex, Private Lives, Wild Target, St Trinian’s, The Importance of Being Earnest, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Unconditional Love, Shakespeare in Love, The Madness of King George) plays Henry Higgins.

Stephanie Cole (Festival 09’s Separate Tables; Doc Martin, Waiting for God, Talking Heads and Tenko) plays his mother Mrs Higgins.

Honeysuckle Weeks (Absurd Person Singular, The Turn of the Screw, Foyle’s War, Victoria Wood Christmas Special, The Wild House, The Wicker Tree, The Sanctuary) plays Eliza Doolittle.

Bernard Shaw’s plays include Mrs Warren’s Profession, Arms and the Man, Candida and You Never Can Tell.

Philip Prowse – Director/Designer – was Co-Director of the Glasgow Citizens’ Theatre from 1970 to 2003. He has directed opera and designed for the ballet both at home and abroad.

Co-producers and sponsors

Kenwood DeLonghi

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    Southern Daily Echo
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