DescriptionThe Lane End Players produce this George Bernard Shaw classic for their 2001 Spring production
Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, who falls in love with his perfect female statue. It is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his 'creation' has a mind of her own. Cast Clara Eynsford-Hill - Hilary Martin Mrs. Eynsford-Hill - Sheila Keatinge Freddy Eynsford-Hill - Daniel Sugrue Eliza Doolittle - Faye Davey Colonel Pickering - Pete Stokes Henry Higgins - Nick Wyse Mrs. Pearce - Georgie Brooks Alfred Doolittle - Dave Bowden Mrs. Higgins - Tish Marshall Parlour Maid - Pia Obank Footman - Philip Charlesworth Nepommuck - Charlie Edgley Host - Bob Connor Hostess - Margot Connor Policeman - Charlie Edgley Party Guest - Tom Everitt |
Author
George Bernard Shaw
DirectorKath Gill
VenueLane End Village Hall
Church Road Lane End Bucks HP14 3JE (see map below) |
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