Pygmalion

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw  22nd-25th November 1933 at the Repertory Theatre Letchworth

Professor Higgins is a scientist of phonetics, and Colonel Pickering is a linguist of Indian dialects. The first bets the other that he can, with his knowledge of phonetics, convince high London society that, in a matter of months, he will be able to transform the cockney speaking Covent Garden flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, into a woman as poised and well-spoken as a duchess.

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Miss Eynsford-Hill : Kathleen Baumber

Mrs Eynsford-Hill : Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Freddie Eysnford-Hill : Frederick Dainton

Eliza Dolittle : Dorothie Brotchie

Colonel Pickering : Charles Bygrave

A bystander : Colin Kirby

Professor Higgins : Kevin Doherty

Sarcastic bystander : David Thomas

Mrs Pearce : Margaret Mackintosh

Alfred Dolittle : Henry Wilkins

Mrs Higgins : Nora Spinks

Parlour maid : Dora Payne

Bystanders, newsboys, etc : Dora Payne, Ada Borissow, Christobel Thompson, Vivienne Kirby, J. Mardon, Les Spinks, J.C. Knowles, A. Berry, R. Pickard, B. Bilson, W.H. Doherty, T. Thomas

Crew

Producer : Ken Spinks

Stage Manager : Oswald Hefferon

Lighting : Robert Footman

Box Office : Robert Parker

Programme of music arranged by Edwin Swannell