Patsy Ferran (A Streetcar Named Desire, Summer and Smoke) plays Eliza Doolittle, the Covent Garden flower girl turned prim and proper lady, not in the more frequently staged musical My Fair Lady, but a revival of the play that inspired it, Pygmalion. Opposite her is the equally revered Bertie Carvel (Ink), playing bachelor about town Professor Henry Higgins, who bets his friend Colonel Pickering he can turn Eliza into a lady. Celebrated director Richard Jones (Endgame, The Twilight Zone) helms the production, which is running at the Old Vic theatre this autumn with previews from Wednesday 6 September.
The production marks a return to the Old Vic for both Carvel and Ferran. The former was on stage at the theatre just last year in Rupert Goold's production of Mike Bartlett's The 47th, a satire imagining the lead-up to America's next presidential race. The latter performed there the year before, in Katy Rudd's production of Bess Wohl's Camp Siegfried, about Long Island's pre-WWII fascist summer camp for American youths of German descent.
Tickets for Pygmalion are now on sale. Click here to book
| What | Pygmalion, Old Vic Theatre |
| Where | The Old Vic, The Cut, London, SE1 8NB | MAP |
| Nearest tube | Waterloo (underground) |
| When |
06 Sep 23 – 28 Oct 23, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM |
| Price | £27+ |
| Website | Click here for more information and to book |
