Pravda o Pygmalionu – Staromódní divadlo

The story of the origin of the well-known comedy and the love affair between G. B. Shaw and the actress Stella Beatrice Campbell.

In his play The Truth About Pygmalion, the British screenwriter Richard Huggett reveals the process of rehearsals for the premiere of the comedy Pygmalion in 1914, which was directed by the author George Bernard Shaw himself and in which the stars of the time played the main roles of London's theater heaven, Beatrice Stella Campbell and Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. And it is the meeting of three extremely popular, gifted and brilliant personalities of the English theatre, who at the same time were unusually self-centered and stubborn artists, with a clear desire to always be not only right, but above all to win the applause of the audience, forms the basis of Huggett's comedy, which the Theater in Řeznické presents in the Czech premiere.