Pygmalion

When
professor of phonetics Henry Higgins wages with Colonel Pickering that he
could teach even a gutter-mouthed flower seller how to speak like a duchess,
little does he expect that his social experiment will be riddled with
difficulties, and that, behind her cockney parlance, the girl in question,
Eliza Doolittle, has a mind, ideas and aspirations of her own. Things come to
a crux when the creature starts to rebel against her creator - and the scene
is set for a play that questions the class system, social appearances and the
role of women in society.

Universally regarded as Shaw’s most successful work for the stage,
Pygmalion - here presented in its original 1916 version, with a wealth of
extra material, including the author’s subsequent revisions and additions to
the text - has spawned a great number of screen adaptations, among them the
famous 1956 Broadway musical My Fair Lady, and shows ancient myth’s
undiminishing ability to find new incarnations in modern life.