Description First performed in 1913, "Pygmalion" is George Bernard\'s Shaw\'s play regarding two scholars of phonetics, Professor Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering, trying to test their theories on an unsuspecting flower girl.
Eliza accepts the offer for speech less.
When Higgins boasts he could pass anyone off as a lord or lady simply by teaching them to speak right, Pickering wagers that he can\'t and offers to pay for the speech lessons of Eliza Doolittle, a poor flower girl.
Description First performed in 1913, "Pygmalion" is George Bernard\'s Shaw\'s play regarding two scholars of phonetics, Professor Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering, trying to test their theories on an unsuspecting flower girl