PIGmalion
- Full Length Play, Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
- 9M, 8F
- ISBN: 9780573698040
Inspired by Pygmalion, Shaw's classic drawing room tale of language and class division, PIGmalion tells the story of one Eliza Doolittle—the daughter of a hardscrabble Mississippi pig farmer—who sells homemade pork rinds at the Tri-Counties and Livestock Show, and dreams of someday working as a waitress at “one of those nice downtown barbecue restaurants where all the tourists go.”
Description
- Full Length Play
- Comedy
- 120 minutes
- Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
- Target Audience: Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18), Senior, Adult
- Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
- Cautions: Alcohol
- Performance Group:
- Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
Characters
- Casting: 9M, 8F
- Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Expandable casting, Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Drag performance, Color blind casting
- Casting Notes: There are four roles in the play that offer doubling possibilities as noted in the script. Additionally, since several of the scenes take place in public spaces (fairgrounds, various restaurants, a bar) there are also possibilities for augmenting the cast with ensemble roles.
FAIRGOERS – A YOUNG MAN* and YOUNG WOMAN,* AN OLDER MAN* and OLDER WOMAN*
FREDDY HILL – a young man in his twenties
CLARA HILL – a young woman in her twenties, Freddy’s sister
IDA HILL – Freddy and Clara’s mother
HENRY HIGGINS – a college professor in his late forties
CAL PICKERING – also a college professor in his late forties, and Henry’s colleague and friend
ELIZA DOOLITTLE – a pig farmer’s daughter in her twenties
TIFFANY BOX – a drag queen of indeterminate age, and Eliza’s best friend
OPAL* – Ida Hill’s maid
VICKI HILL – Ida Hill’s third child; like her siblings, also in her twenties
A RESTAURANT HOSTESS*
A WAITER*
CHAD* – a different waiter and former student of Cal Pickering
GERALD* – a bartender and pool-boy
*Double-casting possibilities
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PIGmalion Script
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Inspired by Pygmalion, Shaw’s classic drawing room tale of language and class division, and its musical incarnation, My Fair Lady, the play tells the story of one Eliza Doolittle—the daughter of a hardscrabble Mississippi pig farmer — who sells homemade 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? |
$24.95 |
