Pygmalion

Summary: 1973 BBC production of Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw.
Theatre play: Pygmalion by [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) [more information]
Play synopsis: 'Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women’s independence’ (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_%28play%29, accessed 29 Janaury 2013).
Production history: Shaw wrote Pygmalion in 1912. It premiered in Vienna in 1913, in a German translation. The first American production opened in March 1914 at the German-language Irving Place Theatre, New York, and its delayed London premiere opened in April of the same year (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_%28play%29, accessed 29 Janaury 2013).
Date of transmission: Sunday 16 December 1973
Time: 8.15-10.15pm
Series: Play of the Month
Channel: BBC1
Production company: BBC

Director

Cedric Messina

Producer

Christopher Morahan

Playwright

[George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Designer

Eileen Diss

Costumes

Odette Barrow

Make-up

Maureen Winslade

Cast

Title: Pygmalion (BBC, 1973)
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