Pygmalion

“Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf, you disgrace to the noble architecture of these columns, you incarnate insult to the English language: I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba.”

Professor of phonetics, Henry Higgins, takes on his most difficult task when he makes a bet that he can train a common flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to speak like a lady and pass for a duchess at an embassy ball. While at first success seems “not bloody likely”, it soon becomes clear that Eliza’s transformation has been a triumph of the professor’s art. But will she thank him for it?

This popular classic by George Bernard Shaw is his most famous and best-loved play, and inspired the 1956 musical “My Fair Lady”.