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HISTORICAL FACTS: Henry higgins - The Untold Story

Random Musing: Trumpery – the Middle English word that eerily predicted the era of Donald Trump

The notion lives on in a post-colonial society where English – and who has access to it – is a marker of civility and civilisation. The Higgins-Macaulay Complex continues to haunt post-colonial societies, but there are times when the English language can be oddly prescient.

The Times of India

My Fair Lady turns 60: a linguist on how the film has held up

On October 21 1964, the iconic and much-celebrated film My Fair Lady premiered in Hollywood. Sixty years later, the film remains an enjoyable rollick full of catchy songs, but is not a wholly accurate depiction of what linguists do – certainly not nowadays at least.

The Conversation

My Fair Lady review – an abso-bloomin’-lutely loverly musical

Opera North brings shimmering music to this gorgeous and crisply choreographed co-production, which preserves Shaw’s critique of the British class system

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The week in theatre: Pygmalion; King Stakh’s Wild Hunt; It’s Headed Straight Towards Us – review

Patsy Ferran and Bertie Carvel are word-perfect in Richard Jones’s first-rate Shaw revival; Belarus Free Theatre fuse fairytale and reality; and two has-been actors hole up in a trailer in Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer’s new comedy

The Guardian - UK

Pygmalion review – Patsy Ferran and Bertie Carvel don’t find play’s heart

This Shaw revival has wonderful moments but there is little spark between Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins

The Guardian - UK

Pygmalion at the Old Vic review: extraordinary central performances from Patsy Ferran and Bertie Carvel

The two stars dominate amid a fine supporting cast, even if this is a weird choice of revival

Evening Standard

Patsy Ferran on stage stardom, performing with Paul Mescal, and Pygmalion: ‘I only ever watched the first 75 per cent of My Fair Lady’

She stepped in to play Blanche to Paul Mescal’s Stanley at the 11th hour. Now she’s taking on her childhood dream role of Eliza Doolittle. Andrzej Lukowski talks to Patsy Ferran, the most exciting stage actor of her generation

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The rise of actor Patsy Ferran: ‘I’m a bit of a duck: calm on the surface…’

She cancelled her honeymoon to star in A Streetcar Named Desire with four days’ notice – then won the 2023 Critics’ Circle best actress award. She talks to the Observer’s theatre critic, an early champion, about her next move

The Guardian - UK

Bertie Carvel and Patsy Ferran to star in Old Vic production of Pygmalion

The production, which will run from September 6 to October 28, will be the first show of the historic venue’s 2023/24 season.

The Independent UK

Review: My Fair Lady at the Palace Theatre

"Rags to riches stories are as old as time but rarely fail to entertain and with costumes as lavish as this one"

Manchester Evening News

Bloomin' loverly - My Fair Lady proves class act at Sunderland Empire

We review classic musical My Fair Lady which runs at Sunderland Empire until February 11 with EastEnders star Adam Woodyatt taking a lead role in the show about the transformation of flower girl Eliza Doolittle

Chronicle Live

My Fair Lady musical coming back to Manchester - with EastEnders icon in leading role

The lavish production will see EastEnders legend Adam Woodyatt in a leading role for the show's big Manchester return

Manchester Evening News

‘My Fair Lady’ revival gives us a fabulously empowered Eliza and more

Director Bartlett Sher’s staging turns away from the rom-com aesthetic that defined both the 1956 Broadway debut and the 1964 movie.

Chicago Sun-Times

My Fair Lady review: Amara Okereke shines as Eliza Doolittle in Bartlett Sher’s glossy musical

Director wrings every last drop of comic potential out of classic musical

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Evening Standard

My Fair Lady at the London Coliseum: fresh and sparky, with a bona fide star in Amara Okereke

Bartlett Sher’s production repackages this witty, well-crafted piece of work for a new generation

The Guardian - UK

My Fair Lady review – perfectly elegant, ever so sedate

Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins are back in a time capsule of nice frocks, great tunes and comic bickering – but it’s solid not spectacular

Evening Standard

Amara Okereke interview: We’re going to have a black Eliza Doolittle in the West End - it’s phenomenal

Bartlett Sher’s Broadway smash revival of My Fair Lady is coming to London - star Amara Okereke explains why Eliza Doolittle is a revolutionary figure

Evening Standard

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