Schedule of Events for 2009/10

My Fair Lady

20th-24th October , 2009 at Watersmeet Theatre

Director : Ian Parrott
Choreographer : Alana Simons
Musical Director : Rob Wicks

“My Fair Lady” is a musical based on Pygmalian George Bernard Shaw.

Professor Higgins, a phonetics linguist, can by a dialect, accent, pronunciation even a dropped vowel, tell within a few feet, exactly where that person originated from. He claims that with the right tuition from him he could take a little guttersnipe and pass her off as royalty and no one would be any the wiser of her past history. His friend Colonel Pickering bets him that he could not do it in time for the embassy ball.

He takes a young Covent Garden flower seller Eliza Doolittle, under his supervision and proceeds to lecture, mould and cajole her day and night, until he has achieved what he set out to do.

He has a chance for a trial run at Ascot Racecourse, he almost pulls it off, till Eliza mutters a rude word. Then it's back to more gruelling lessons day and night for Eliza.

At the ball, they manage to fool another linguist, who announces that she is of noble birth and of foreign stock.

Higgins treats her very shabbily, when they return from the ball, Eliza packs her bags and leaves. She is pursued by an admiring suitor Freddy.

Which one will she choose?