Pygmalion
A romantic comedy by Bernard Shaw
Thursday 13 November 1997 - Saturday 15 November 1997
Faringdon Secondary School, Fernham Road, Faringdon SN7 7LB
Directed by Carolyn Taylor & Peter Webster
Performances start 7:30 pm. Doors open 30 minutes earlier.
Tickets were available from Reflections, 8 Marlborough Street, Faringdon.
The action of the play is set in London in 1912. 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.
More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_(play)
Claire Green; Dave Headey; leuan Thomas
Claire Green; Dave Headey
Karen Whiffen; Claire Green
Joan Lee; Dave Headey; Roger Leitch
Karen Whiffen; Dave Headey; Claire Green
Dave Headey; Roger Leitch; leuan Thomas; Claire Green
Photographs by kind permission of Ian Smith (founder of the ‘Faringdon Folly’ newspaper)
Cast (in order of appearance):
Prof. Henry Higgins - Dave Headey
Mrs. Eynsford-Hill - Maggie Sly
Clara Eynsford-Hill - Christina Willett
Freddy Eynsford-Hill - Josh Smith
Eliza Doolittle - Claire Green
Col. Pickering - Ieuan Thomas
Mrs. Pearce - Joan Lee
Alfred Doolittle - Roger Leitch
Mrs. Higgins - Sarah Varnom
Parlourmaid - Karen Whiffen
Nepommuck - Walther Schoonenberg
Host - Paul Garratt
Hostess - Debbie Lock
Flautist - Debbie Lock
Pianist - Robert Jennings
Market traders / bystanders / guests / dancers - Jill Headey; Chris Matic; Carole McDowell; Irene Schoonenberg; Jeni Summerfield; Peter Webster; Barry Willett
See programme for further details.
Production No.125 - 3 shows were performed over 3 days.