Pygmalion

At 11:15 on a rain-lashed night in Covent Garden, a flower girl’s words are taken down—and repeated back to her in sounds she can hardly recognize. Eliza Doolittle fears the note-taker is a policeman; his interest in her speech is far more unsettling.

Bernard Shaw’s 1912 comedy begins beneath the portico of St. Paul’s Church, where Londoners shelter from a sudden summer storm. The note-taker is Henry Higgins, a phonetics professor who boasts that he can teach Eliza to speak like a duchess; Colonel Pickering is willing to put that boast to the test. But when a voice can decide how the world treats you, what exactly can a lesson change—and what might it cost?

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