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Arena Theatre was founded by John King in 1983 and has become one of Bournemouth, Poole and Dorset's leading theatre companies.
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George Bernard Shaw's
Directed by Terri Jowett with permission from The Society of Authors
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 comment on women's independence, packaged as a romantic comedy.
Jill Richmond as Eliza Doolittle
Jeremy Mills as Professor Higgins
Patrick D'Ardenne as Colonel Pickering
Linda Denning as Mrs Pearce
Jane Taylor as Mrs Higgins
Sue Witham as Mrs Eynsford-Hill
Carly-Ann Clarke as Miss Clara Eynsford-Hill
Jason Green as Freddy Eynsford-Hill
Stephen Tonkin as Mr Doolittle
Lily Taylor as Parlourmaid / Bystander
Yes, we have finally achieved the impossible and cast Pygmalion! And a jolly fine cast they are too.
Now, all we need to do is keep everyone fit and well . . .
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