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The First Night of 'Pygmalion'

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

by Richard Huggett
[Starring] Max Adrian as Bernard Shaw, Miriam Karlin as Mrs Patrick Campbell
and John Osborne as Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Three monstrous - but brilliantly witty - egoists came together when Beerbohm Tree agreed to stage Shaw's new play Pygmalion at His Majesty's Theatre in April 1914. The star was the outrageous Mrs Patrick Campbell.
This is an entertaining reconstruction of how Shaw came to write the play, and the tempests and tribulations of the rehearsal period which led up to the dramatic first night.

(Colour)

Contributors

Writer:
Richard Huggett
Lighting:
Jim Richards
Sound:
Derek Miller-Timmins
Costume:
Catriona Tomalin
Make-up:
Tina Clare
Designer:
Fanny Taylor
Producer:
Hal Burton
Bernard Shaw:
Max Adrian
Mrs Patrick Campbell:
Miriam Karlin
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree:
John Osborne
Stanley Bell:
John Graham
Dame Edith Lyttleton:
Olwen Brooks
Henry Dana:
Richard Huggett
The 'Pygmalion' cast - Carlotta Addison (Mrs Eynsford Hill):
Naomi Campbell
The 'Pygmalion' cast - Margaret Busse (Clara):
Pamela Roland
The 'Pygmalion' cast - Irene Delisse (Eliza's understudy):
Lynne White
The 'Pygmalion' cast - Algernon Grieg (Freddy):
Stuart Eames
The 'Pygmalion' cast - Edmund Gurney (Doolittle):
Ernest Jennings
The 'Pygmalion' cast - Philip Merivale (Col Pickering):
Michael Behr
The 'Pygmalion' cast - Rosamund Mayne-Young (Mrs Higgins):
Winifred Hill
The 'Pygmalion' cast - Alexander Sarner (A Bystander):
Alexander John
Others parts:
Ernest Claydon
Others parts:
Richard Hallifax
Others parts:
Alexander John
Others parts:
Verne Morgan
Others parts:
David Sparks
Source: Radio Times

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