A play about the scandalous opening night of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion - the first time that the word `bloody' was used on the British stage.
The production also created a passionate love-hate triangle of Shaw, his leading man, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and his leading lady, the irrepressible Mrs Patrick Campbell, who played the 19-year-old Eliza Doolittle at the age of 49.
Cast:
George Bernard Shaw.......Alistair McGowan
George Alexander.......David Sturzaker
Mrs Patrick Campbell.......Charlotte Page
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree.......Richard McCabe
Charlotte Shaw.......Georgie Glen
Merivale.......Philip Fox
Gurney/Fishman.......Simon Ludders
Bell.......Charlie Clements
Maid.......Sarah Ridgeway
Produced & Directed by Emma Harding
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Thank you, William!
Thank you! I missed this when it was broadcast in 2017.
"Pygmalion" wasn't exactly the first time that the B word was used on the British stage. In the Scottish play, on seeing a wounded soldier (the stage direction, depending on the edition, reads either "Enter a bleeding sergeant" or "Enter a bleeding captain"), Duncan asks, "What bloody man is that?" But his meaning was rather different from Eliza Doolittle's, of course.
Roger
Thanks!