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Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw
A professor bets he can pass a flower girl off as a duchess — the basis for My Fair Lady.

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Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw · ACT I: Covent Garden at 11.15 p.m. Torrents of...
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ACT I Covent Garden at 11.15 p.m. Torrents of heavy summer rain. Cab whistles blowing frantically in all directions. Pedestrians running for shelter into the market and under the portico of St. Paul’s Church, where there are already several people, among them…

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  1. ACT I: Covent Garden at 11.15 p.m. Torrents of...Free
  2. ACT II: Next day at 11 a.m. Higgins’s laboratory...Free
  3. ACT III: It is Mrs. Higgins’s at-home day. Nobody has yet arrived. HerFree
  4. ACT IV: The Wimpole Street laboratory. Midnight....Free
  5. ACT V: Mrs. Higgins’s drawing-room. She is at her...Free

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