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Paul O’Mahony
Pygmalion

Author: Paul O’Mahony

Performance space: The Abbey Theatre, Dublin

Theatre company/company produced for: The Abbey Theatre, Dublin

Month & year of original production: April to June 2011

Description of items intended for exhibition:
Model

Project description:
Pygmalion is a 1912 play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological character of the same name.

Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at ease in polite society by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The one thing that he overlooks is that his 'creation' has a mind of her own.
The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence.

Artform:
Set Design

Designers:
Set designer: Paul O'Mahony
Costume designer: Peter O’Brien
Lighting designer: Mick Hughes
Sound designer: Philip Stewart
Digital video NA: Philip Stewart
Director/choreographer: Annabelle Comyn

Image gallery

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Pygmalion Act Four
Mr. Higgins's laboratory/drawing room in Wimpole Street.

Photo: Ros Kavanagh

Paul O’Mahony - Pygmalion

Pygmalion Act Two
Transition from laboratory to bathroom.

Photo: Ros Kavanagh

Paul O’Mahony - Pygmalion

Pygmalion Act Two Bathroom Scene
Bathroom scene.

Photo: Ros Kavanagh

Paul O’Mahony - Pygmalion

Pygmalion Act Two Bathroom Scene Detail
Bathroom scene detail.

Photo: Ros Kavanagh

Paul O’Mahony - Pygmalion

Pygmalion Act Three
Mrs. Higgin's drawing room.

Photo: Ros Kavanagh

Other media

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGxQfB__HxA
Pygmalion Act One
'The portico of Saint Paul's Church (not Wren's Cathedral but Inigo Jones Church in Covent Garden vegetable market)'

Photo: Ros Kavanagh