Comedy by GBShaw
Translation: Petru Comarnescu

Artistic direction and soundtrack: Eugen Harizomenov
Scenography: Vioara Bara
Stage movement: Gitta T.Săteanu
Premiere date: November 12, 1992

Is beauty a reflection of virtue? Does the artist love his creation, or only the art that helped him create it? What types of relationships can exist between a man and a woman? Is it possible to rise from one social class to another? Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw proposes a meditation on these questions, starting from the ancient myth of Pygmalion and Galatea, which he places in Victorian England, giving it new human and symbolic valences.

A chance meeting and a bet between professors Higgins and Pickering fundamentally change the life of simple florist Eliza Doolittle, raised in a poor suburb. Phonetics professor Henry Higgins takes on the challenge of transforming Eliza into a star of London's social world within six months, endowing her with a superficial aristocratic education, in which the essential element will be the impeccable way of speaking. The social and linguistic experiment that fascinates Higgins succeeds so well that at a reception given by an ambassador, Eliza passes for an aristocrat of royal blood, of Hungarian origin, and when the professor tells everyone the truth, no one believes him. The drama of the girl of modest condition begins when, once transformed into an ideal young lady - becoming Galatea, she no longer finds her place in the world...

Distribution:

Henry Higgins:  Eugen Harizomenov
Mrs. Higgins:  Simona Constantinescu
Eliza Doolittle:  Mariana Presecan
Alfred Doolittle:  Nicholas Thomas
Colonel Pickering:  Ion Abrudan
Mrs. Eynsford Hill:  Mariana Neagu
Clara:  Elvira Plato
Freddy:  Dorin Presecan
Mrs. Pearce:  Alla Tautu
The maid:  Ofelia Fîrte
Smith:  George Voinese
An ironic gentleman:  Ion Ruscut
Florals and figuration:  Dorin Demian, Cristina Nicu, Adela Branzas, Adela Cret

Technical director: Florin Popescu
Prompter: Iuliana Chelu
Lighting: Vasile Blejan, Iosif Balogh, Laviniu Goron
Sound: Sorin Domide