Photo Flash: Bedlam Theatre Company Presents PYGMALION

BEDLAM's (Eric Tucker, Artistic Director; Kimberly Pau Boston, Managing Director) presents a new production of Pygmalion. The company's return to the work of George Bernard Shaw officially opens Off-Broadway on Tuesday March 27, 2018 at The Sheen Center (18 Bleecker Street), for a limited 6-week run through Sunday, April 22, 2018. Tickets on sale now at 212-925-2812 or www.bedlam.org.

BEDLAM's Pygmalion features Rajesh Bose as Mr. Doolittle, Annabel Capper, Nigel Gore, Edmund Lewis, Vaishnavi Sharma as Eliza Doolittle, and Eric Tucker as Professor Henry Higgins. BEDLAM's Pygmalion has lighting design by Les Dickert, scenic design by John McDermott, costume design byCharlotte Palmer-Lane and casting by EB Casting.

BEDLAM's Artistic Director Eric Tucker will employ environmental staging and diverse casting as he delves into Pygmalion, Shaw's famous tale about gender power dynamics. The language in Shaw's play is incredibly dense and Tucker's approach is to present the authentic version of this dark and sexy tale. Tucker's production will view the play through contemporary filters of ethnicity and class, as we as a Nation have a conversation about tolerance and equality.

George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, based on the classical myth, plays on the complex issue of class in a social world. When Professor Henry Higgins comes across a poor and uneducated Cockney girl named Eliza Doolittle, Higgins makes a bet that he can take Eliza from the gutters of London and pass her off as a society lady. Higgins soon discovers that the task involves more than simply teaching her the right dialect in which to speak.

PYGMALION premiered on Broadway in 1914 at the Park Theatre and subsequently was revived on Broadway five times. In 1956, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe wrote My Fair Lady, a musical based on Shaw's classic play.

The playing schedule for BEDLAM's Pygmalion is: Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 7pm, Saturday at 8pm, and Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday at 2pm. Please note there will be no performances Saturday, March 17 at 2pm, and Friday, March 30.

Committed to the immediacy of the relationship between the actor and the audience, BEDLAM creates works of theatre that reinvigorate traditional forms in a flexible, raw space, collapsing aesthetic distance and bringing its viewers into direct contact with the dangers and delicacies of life. In this new, fresh, active environment storytelling becomes paramount and the result is a kinetic experience of shared empathy. www.bedlam.org

Photo Credit: Ashley Garrett