Pygmalion at Preble Players

A Brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phonetic it's 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. This is the original play that served as the inspiration for the musical, My Fair Lady.

Authors

• George Bernard Shaw
• William Brough

Tony Awards and Nominations for Pygmalion