Pygmalion

 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th November 2003

Set in 1912, Shaw's play features Professor Henry Higgins, an expert on accents, who meets a very Cockney flower-girl, Eliza Doolittle, in Covent Garden. He bets his friend that he can turn Eliza into a lady and pass her off as a dutchess at an ambassador's party - and he has three months to do it in.

When the end result is a very attractive and well-spoken Miss Doolittle, the consequences are very different from what he anticipated!

If you think you've heard the plot before, you'd be right - it's the original play from which the musical My Fair Lady was created.

In the past 5 years, the Ridgeway Theatre Company has raised over £8000 for various local charities wth its annual production. This year the proceeds will go to The Menigitis Research Foundation

This year's director is Lynda Farrington, well-known for her appearances in previous productions, notably as Aunt Ada Doom in Cold Comfort Farm

Here are links about Pygmalion if you want to find out more

http://www.bartleby.com/138/index.html for the full text of the script

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gbshaw.htm for a biography of George Bernard Shaw

http://almaz.com/nobel/literature/1925a.html is the Nobel prize internet resource.  George Bernard Shaw won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/pygmalion/context.html has the script with notes for students.