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'Educating Eliza'
George Bernard Shaw/Oscar Fovarge.

Educating Eliza brings George Bernard Shaw's 'Pygmalion' into the 21st century. Part One is a pacy version of Shaw's well known story of Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle. In Part Two, notorious music producer and publicist Leo Pygman ("The 'g' is silent!") hears Eliza Doolittle's great-great-grandaughter sing at her independent school leaving ceremony. Impressed and enamoured in equal measure, he is determined on a makeover. He will transform this modern Eliza's perfect manners and cut-glass vowels into the demeanour of a Top Ten, headline-grabbing, singer-celebrity. But who in this scenario is exploiting whom, and why?

'Great fun, music and wordplay. Huge benefits to all students of the English language."

National curriculum Key Stage 3: English, Music and Drama, History and PSHE.
English as a Foreign Language: Suitable for Intermediate and Advanced level students.

2010 UK tour forthcoming.

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