Pygmalion

Pygmalion is George Bernard Shaw’s witty play about Professor Henry Higgins, a phonetics expert who bets he can transform Cockney flower‑seller Eliza Doolittle into a “duchess” by teaching her refined speech. The play exposes how class, accent, and gender expectations shape people’s lives, even as Higgins insists he is only conducting a neutral experiment. Blending sharp comedy with social critique, Pygmalion asks who really changes in this makeover: Eliza, or the society that thinks it owns her voice.