Bernard Shaw: PYGMALION

Higgins, a professor of phonetics, makes a bet that he will transform a street child, the poor flower seller Lisa, into a real lady. However, a seemingly innocent game of male whimsy becomes 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 remake a woman to his liking in order to fall in love with her? If so, is it love for a woman, or only for an idealised idea? But then how is a woman to find her happiness if the path to it is the uprooting of her own identity? And finally, what role does authenticity still play in society?

WARNING: SUITABLE FOR AGES 15 AND UP

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