Synopsis
PIGmalion
Published by Samuel French Inc
9 Male 8 Female
The play tells the story of one Eliza Doolittle - the daughter of a Mississippi pig farmer - who sells home-made pork rinds at the Tri-Counties Fair and Livestock Show, and dreams of someday working as a waitress at " ... one of those nice downtown barbecue restaurants where all the tourists go"
With the support of her best friend, a sassy Transgender firecracker named Miss Tiffany Box, patroness Ida Hill and her daughter Clara; and with Ida's instantly enamored son Freddy nipping romantically at Eliza's heels, Delta-drawlin' Eliza engages the services of a "Kudzu-league" college prof named Henry Higgins to take the country out of her speech and give her some semblance of class
Devotees of Shaw's original will delight in the transplantation of Eliza and Professor Higgins and his colleague Pickering to the American South
But this gentle, warm-hearted comedy gives us something else as well, a question for which everyone in the play must find the answer -
How do we reconcile the way we present ourselves on the outside with who we truly are on the inside?