Pygmalion

Summary: 1981 Yorkshire Television production for ITV 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 27 December 1981
Time: 9.30-11.15pm
Series: Celebrity Playhouse
Channel: ITV
Production company: Yorkshire Television (1968-)

Director

John Glenister

Playwright

[George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Adapted for Television by

Pat Sandys

Designer

Eileen Diss

Executive Producer

David Cunliffe

Cast

Title: TV Times, 17 December 1981 (Magazine)
Linking notes: long article, pp. 24-27; brief article, p. 86; listing, p. 87

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