“Yes you squashed cabbage leaf … I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba”
PYGMALION by George Bernard Shaw
Newcastle People's Theatre
Tuesday 18 – Saturday 22 March 2025
Next week at the People’s Theatre in Heaton, George Bernard Shaw’s captivating classic Pygmalion.
After a chance meeting, Professor Henry Higgins sets about transforming flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a duchess at ease in polite society.
In her journey from guttersnipe to lady, irrepressible Eliza fights to preserve her reputation and independence.
Will upper-class society accept her as one of their own, or will Eliza never forget who she really is?
“The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she is treated”
Both delighting and scandalising its first audiences in 1914, George Bernard Shaw’s classic is an explosively funny and biting commentary on class, gender, and what it means to be yourself.
Daisy Burden as Eliza
Photo: Andreea Lungu
The inspiration for the musical ‘My Fair Lady’, as well as for ‘Pretty Woman’, ‘Educating Rita’ and teen rom-com ‘She’s All That’, the story has enchanted audiences for decades.
The People’s has a long relationship and association with George Bernard Shaw. In 1911, when the Clarion Dramatic Society, they performed his The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, even though it had been banned by the Lord Chamberlain. In 1921, Shaw travelled to Newcastle to see the company’s production of Man and Superman, and the People’s give the first provincial performance of his Heartbreak House. They continue to stage his plays to this day, with Pygmalion last on their stage opening the 2011 Centenary Season.
Tickets:
Tickets for Pygmalion are available from the People’s Theatre Box Office on 0191 265 5020 (option 2) and online at www.peoplestheatre.co.uk
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