Pigmalion
by Mark Dunn

Name: Pigmalion
Brand: Mark Dunn
SKU: 9780573698040
Rating: 3.71 (9 reviews)

Highlights

Large Cast

Female

Male

120 mins Present Day Reduced Casting (Doubling Possible) Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American Comedy

Synopsis

Dramatic Comedy / 9m, 8f (cross casting and double casting possible) Inspired by Pygmalion, Shaw's classic drawing room tale of language and class division, and its musical incarnation, My Fair Lady, the play tells the story of one Eliza Doolittle-the daughter of a hardscrabble Mississippi pig farmer-who sells homemade pork rinds at the Tri-Counties Fair and Livestock Show, and dreams of someday working as a waitress at one of those nice downtown barbecue restaurants where all the tourists go.

With the support of her best friend, a sassy Transgender firecracker named Miss Tiffany Box, patroness Ida Hill and her daughter Clara; and with Ida's instantly enamored son Freddy nipping romantically at Eliza's heels, Delta-drawlin' Eliza engages the services of a Kudzu-league college prof named Henry Higgins to take the country out of her speech and give her some semblance of class.

Devotees of Shaw's original will delight in the transplantation of Eliza and Professor Higgins and his colleague Pickering to the American South

But this gentle, warm-hearted comedy gives us something else as well, a question for which everyone in the play must find the answer: how do we reconcile the way we present ourselves on the outside with who we truly are on the inside?

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Freddy Hill a young man in his twenties	male	—	a young man in his twenties
Clara Hill a young woman in her twenties, Freddy’s sister	female	—	a young woman in her twenties, Freddy’s sister
Ida Hill Freddy and Clara’s mother	female	—	Freddy and Clara’s mother
Henry Higgins a college professor in his late forties	male	—	a college professor in his late forties
Cal Pickering also a college professor in his late forties, and Henry’s colleague and friend	male	—	also a college professor in his late forties, and Henry’s colleague and friend
Eliza Doolittle a pig farmer’s daughter in her twenties	female	—	a pig farmer’s daughter in her twenties
Tiffany Box a drag queen of indeterminate age, and Eliza’s best friend	female	—	a drag queen of indeterminate age, and Eliza’s best friend
Vicki Hill Ida Hill’s third child; like her siblings, also in her twenties	female	—	Ida Hill’s third child; like her siblings, also in her twenties
Fairgoers A YOUNG MAN* and YOUNG WOMAN,* AN OLDER MAN* and OLDER WOMAN*	female	—	A YOUNG MAN* and YOUNG WOMAN,* AN OLDER MAN* and OLDER WOMAN*