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Friday May 1 Evening Performance 7.30pm
Saturday May 2 Evening Performance 7.30pm
Saturday May 9 Evening Performance 7.30pm
Saturday May 16 Evening Performance 7.30pm
Sunday May 17 Matinee 2pm

Cast & Crew:

Eliza Doolittle - Janni DeZwart
Henry Higgins - John Graham
Colonel Pickering - Luke Tuite
Alfred Doolittle - Greg Jones
Mrs Pearce - Barbara Barnstable
Mrs Eynsford-Hill - Barbara O'Neill
Freddy Eynsford-Hill - Greg Devine
Mrs Higgins - Judy Oliver
Extras - Michael Oliver, Niki Warner, Jackie Keeble

Director - Len Ball
Stage Design - Niki Warner
Lighting & Sound - Gerard Margetson

The play is in Two Acts. The time is early 1900's and the action takes place in London over several months.

ACT 1, Sc 1: Outside the Opera House & St Paul's Church, Covent Garden - late evening
Sc 2: Next morning, Professor Higgins' sitting room
Sc 3: A couple of months later - Mrs Higgins' sitting room - afternoon

ACT 2, Sc 1: Six weeks later, Professor Higgins' sitting room - evening
Sc 2: Same evening - midnight - Professor Higgins' sitting room
Sc 3: Next morning - Mrs Higgins' sitting room

Information about the play:

This is a splendid comedy of bad manners based on the original play "Pygmalion” by the witty and world famous comedy writer, George Bernhard Shaw. Pygmalion is the original play subsequently turned into the smash-hit musical “My Fair Lady” . This is a play for our seemingly hopeless and difficult times because it demonstrates with good humour how a person with a will can change their life around and become who and what they want to be against almost impossible odds.

Professor Higgins bets his friend Colonel Pickering that he can turn a cockney flower seller in six months into a lady who can pass as a duchess. He does so successfully but he does not reckon with the complicating human elements in the mixture nor with the awakening of Eliza's true character. The outcome of his bet is not the simple, uninvolved lark that he originally imagined. The play takes us back a hundred years and gives us a glimpse of the clothes, the manners and the social hierarchy that was a part of our grandparents' everyday lives.

Shaw was renowned for his of-the-cuff witticisms and his comments on almost every subject could fill a book. He was responsible for the famous remark: “He who can does. He who cannot teaches” ; and: “ The golden rule is that there is no golden rule”. He was most suspicious of politics and hated hypocrisy, especially of the moral and religious sort: “ Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few” and: “There are scores of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the will of God on every possible subject”. Our play sparkles with this kind of wit and observation.