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
Pygmalion Act Four
Mr. Higgins's laboratory/drawing room in Wimpole Street.
Photo: Ros Kavanagh
Pygmalion Act Two
Transition from laboratory to bathroom.
Photo: Ros Kavanagh
Pygmalion Act Two Bathroom Scene
Bathroom scene.
Photo: Ros Kavanagh
Pygmalion Act Two Bathroom Scene Detail
Bathroom scene detail.
Photo: Ros Kavanagh
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