Bernard Shaw: PYGMALION

Phonetics professor Higgins makes a bet that he can transform a street child, a poor flower seller, Lisa, into a real lady. What seems like an innocent game of male whim turns into a dangerous gamble with a woman's identity and personality.

Shaw's Pygmalion - the literary model for the famous My Fair Lady - poses the most fundamental and still unresolved gender questions: Does a man need to reshape a woman according to his own ideas in order to fall in love with her? If so, is it love for a woman, or just for an idealized image? But how is a woman supposed to find her happiness if the path to it is the eradication of her own identity? And finally, what role does authenticity still play in society?

WARNING : THE PERFORMANCE IS SUITABLE FOR AGES 15 AND UP

Location: National Theatre / Historic Building