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“Eliza & The Professor” (May 2009)

'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	Extra 'Bystander' Michael Oliver	Stage Design Niki Warner	Director & Extra Len Ball	Lighting & Sound Gerard Margetson

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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.

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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.

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