Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw's sharp, funny drama of a phonetics professor who wagers he can pass a flower girl off as a duchess by remaking her speech.

At a glance Beneath the wit, a fierce argument about class, dignity, and who gets to be taken… A rain-soaked London evening, a scattering of strangers under a portico, and a man… What it's about Pygmalion follows a distinguished professor of phonetics who boasts… The experiment begins as a wager and a piece of intellectual vanity, but as the young…

Pygmalion follows a distinguished professor of phonetics who boasts that, given a few months, he could teach a Covent Garden flower seller to speak so well that fashionable society would take her for a lady.