![]() ![]() Francesca Ottley captures Eliza Doolittle (she does much not little) wonderfully well. This shape-changing, language shifting and ultimately social class-moving dynamic is the focus of the play. ![]() Note in particular Jack Matthews’ exit as an aristocratic and return 30 seconds later as a cockney dustman. The range of accents articulated and the speed of transformation (in both costume and accent) from Cockney to Aristocrat is incredible. All five are clearly enormously talented. Producers Louisa Marie Hunt and Andrew Lindfield turn the space of the stage into Covent Garden, a drawing room in Wimple Street, and a garden with nothing but a few props, lighting and Debussy.Īs I say five actors play all the parts. Cassandra Hodges plays four. That includes the young girl selling programs in the foyer. The energy and zest for theatre shine through from all concerned. Being a brilliant talent spotter he has chosen actors of outstanding talent, skill and dedication. ![]() Pete Gallagher’s direction is assured – he focuses on the key conflicts and ensures a brisk tempo is maintained throughout. Five actors play all the parts, and move the props between the scenes. With limited resources, DOT productions have done remarkably well. DOT productions have put together a terrific adaptation which is a joy to watch. It’s a fascinating, intriguing and very pertinent play which has much to offer for us as we grapple with all of the aforesaid issues. Shaw saw immediately that Pygmalion gave him the perfect vehicle to explore his obsessions class, language, gender and society. The word pygmalion has entered the language for any attempt to make a person or society in the image of another. Pygmalion has been made into films, and musicals like My Fair Lady and provided the inspiration for Educating Rita and Daisy Pulls it Off. Written in 1912 Shaw’s Pygmalion has like the Canterbury Tales become a classic. I was there to review Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, a writer who like Chaucer was a master storyteller. As the pilgrims assembled at the Tabard Inn on the Old Kent Road in 1370 in preparation for the journey that became Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, so last night a group of contemporary theatre pilgrims mustered at the theatre at the Tabard in Chiswick just by Turnham Green Station. ![]()
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