PYGMALION | 📍 Divadlo pod Palmovkou

"Buy a flower from a poor girl? Skuvski fine." The sculptor who created the statue of the Aphrodite of ivory and fell in love with his work. The goddess then heard his pleas and revived the statue. The most famous processing of this theme is certainly the play George Bernard Shaw. The famous musical version of My Fair Lady took this possibility perfectly. Shaw, however, stayed against this romantic version of the story. He named his play "Pygmalion", and he was a sculptor of an extremely narcissistic nature, unable to make contact that creates a statue - a woman in his own image. Shaw was a magnificent ironic: The man teaches a woman to speak, but he can't talk to her. He was quite a harsh provocateur, enjoyed outrage, even let Lisza express himself very vulgar - that was absolutely scandalous on the Victorian scene, it used to be a time.
industry in our country). The classic work is also updated by a number of Steampunk aesthetics, not only in scenography, costumes and props.

Director: Michal Lang