Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
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Pygmalion

Author: George Bernard Shaw

Narrator: Roslyn Alexander, Full Cast

Unabridged: 1 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/06/2000


Synopsis

One of Shaw’s most enduring works, Pygmalion is an insightful comedy of class relations and perceptions, as played out between a Cockney flower girl and the irascible speech professor who has taken her on as a pet project. Described by critics as “a play of great vitality and charm,” Pygmalion inspired the award-winning stage and film productions of Lerner and Loewe’s musical, My Fair Lady.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Roslyn Alexander, Shannon Cochran, Denise du Maurier, Rebecca MacLean, David New, Kenneth J. Northcott, Nicholas Pennell, Nicholas Rudall, Ben Whitehouse and Laura Whyte.

About George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Irish-born playwright, critic, and political activist, began his writing career in London. In addition to writing sixty-three plays, his prodigious output as critic, pamphleteer, and essayist influenced numerous social issues. In 1925, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature and in 1938 an Oscar for the movie version of Pygmalion.


Reviews

Ah-ah-ah-ow-ow-oo! Exceptional linguist Professor Henry Higgins meets gentleman Colonel Pickering and they whimsically set on crazy bet to pass off Eliza, a low class street flower girl, as a respectable royal lady of the high society. Little do they know Eliza has a few talents of her own. This wa......more

Goodreads review by Dave

This is fun to read out loud in crazy English accents while stomping around your apartment. The neighbors might not like it but screw 'em.......more

Pygmalion is a verbose, satirical, romantic play, distributed over 5 Acts, with no scenes! The play opens with the following preparatory lines- “It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him. German and Spanish are accessible to foreigne......more