Pygmalion | |
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![]() Illustration depicting Mrs Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle | |
Written by | George Bernard Shaw |
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Date premiered | 16 October 1913 |
Place premiered | Hofburg Theatre in Vienna, Austria |
Genre | Romantic comedy, social criticism |
Setting | London, England |
Pygmalion is a play by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, named after the Greek mythological figure. It premiered at the Hofburg Theatre in Vienna on 16 October 1913 and was first presented on stage in German. Its English-language premiere took place at His Majesty's Theatre in London's West End in April 1914 and starred Herbert Beerbohm Tree as phonetics professor Henry Higgins and Mrs Patrick Campbell as Cockney flower-girl Eliza Doolittle.
Shaw's play has been adapted many times, most notably as the 1938 film Pygmalion, the 1956 stage musical My Fair Lady, and its 1964 film version. It was also adapted into Bengali as Ogo Bodhu Shundori in 1981, where Uttam Kumar appeared in the lead.