Description:
The play that inspired My Fair Lady, Pygmalion has amused audiences the world over and has become one of the most adapted plays of all time. The 1964 filmed version starred Audrey Hepburn as Eliza and Rex Harrison as Higgins.
Brief description: GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, journalist, and political activist. Unrivaled in his lifetime and since as the leading English-language dramatist of the twentieth century, Shaw was a master of prose style. He wrote more than sixty plays, among them Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913), and Saint Joan (1923). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.
Review Quotes:
"The greatest British dramatist since Shakespeare."
-The Guardian