Pygmalion is a five-act play that explores themes of social classes, identity, the purpose of (and the some times unexpected response to)... language. The play is about a phonetics professor- Henry Higgins- who has made a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can transform a Cockney flower seller - Eliza Doolittle - into a refined Lady in 6 months so she can pass as a Duchess in High Society. Eliza undergoes a grueling training in the process but is eventually successful.... but there is a unexpected conclusion to the story.

Pygmalion is a play by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, named after the Greek mythological figure. It premiered at the Hofburg Theatre in Vienna on 16 October 1913 and was first presented on stage in German. Its English-language premiere took place at His Majesty's Theatre in London's West End in April 1914 and starred Herbert Beerbohm Tree as phonetics professor Henry Higgins and Mrs Patrick Campbell as Cockney flower-girl Eliza Doolittle.

Shaw's play has been adapted many times, most notably as the 1938 film Pygmalion , the 1956 stage musical My Fair Lady, and its 1964 film version.

 

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