Pygmalion
From Theatre Breaks
The Chichester Festival production of Pygmalion, opens at the West End’s Garrick Theatre on 25th May 2011, following previews from 12th May and is booking to 3rd September 2011.
It is directed and designed again by Philip Prowse, and will again feature Rupert Everett as Henry Higgins.
Kara Tointon, best known for playing Dawn Swann in BBC soap opera EastEnders and the 2010 winner of BBC television series Strictly Come Dancing, will play the role of ‘Eliza Doolittle’ and Peter Eyre ‘Colonel Pickering’. Further casting to be confirmed!
Egocentric Professor of Phonetics, Henry Higgins, makes a bet with his friend, Colonel Pickering, that he can transform the manners and speech of Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle and pass her off as a society lady.
This production played at the Chichester Festival last year from 9th July to 27th August, 2010.
Pygmalion remains one of the most popular of George Bernard Shaw’s plays, full of his trademark wit, style and provocative insights, as well as a beguiling and enduring humour
Pygmalion News
Pygmalian, starring Rupert Everett and Dianna Rigg, begins previews at London’s Garrick Theatre. Diana Rigg plays Everett's mother Mrs Higgins in Philip Prowse' production of George Bernard Shaw’s classic, a role taken last summer in Chichester by Stephanie Cole.
A stellar cast has been assembled for the new West End production of George Bernard Shaw's classic play Pygmalion.
Due to open at the Garrick Theatre on Thursday May 12th 2011, the show will feature former EastEnders actress Kara Tointon as Eliza Doolitte and Rupert Everett as Professor Henry Higgins.
Tointon, who spent four years playing Dawn Swann on the popular BBC1 soap EastEnders and recently won Strictly Come Dancing, is set to make her West End debut in the production.
Dame Diana Rigg was also recently added to the cast, with the 72-year-old former star of The Avengers set to appear as the mother of Professor Higgins.
Written in 1912, Pygmalion tells the story of a Cockney flower girl who is transformed into a society lady after the professor makes a bet with a friend.
It is an enduring favourite among theatre fans, as it combines Shaw's famous wit and style with sharply observed social comment and a classic romantic narrative.
Tickets for the London production, which is due to run until September 2011, are priced between £28.50 and £55.50.
Rumours
According to unsubstantiated reports, David Jason is in talks to join Angela Lansbury, Rupert Everett and Billie Piper in an upcoming West End run of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.
None of the actors have been confirmed for the production, however if it all works out, Jason would star as Alfred P. Doolittle, with Lansbury as Mrs. Higgins. Piper would star as Eliza Doolittle opposite Everett as Henry Higgins. Everett would be the only transfer from the Philip Prowes's Chichester Festival Theatre production of Pygmalion.
