"PYGMALION"

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22369, 17 September 1934, Page 2

"PYGMALION"

REPERTORY SOCIETY PRODUCTION.

From its inception some 18 months ago, th<s Dunedin Repertory Society has bad a full measure of successes, but its sixth production, " Pygmalion," by George Bernard Shaw, bids fair to outshine any performance yet offered by it to the Dunedin public.. The play itself is a brilliant comedy scintillating with wit. From curtain to curtain the dialogue never once falters, and the characters of Dolittle, the dustman who has to " dyo mo 'air already to keep mo job," and Eliza Dolittle, the flower girl who wants to talk like a " lidy," are surely among the funniest characters ever created, Bernard Shaw has many admirers and many critics, and can lay claim to being one.of the most discussed men of his day, but not oven his sternest critic has ever denied that "Pygmalion" is a masterpiece. It has been suggested from time to time that Shaw's plays appeal only to the intelligentsia and the "high brow." Whatever may be said of some of his plays, this criticism cannot be levelled nt " Pygmalion," which abounds with sprightly Shavian wit such an anybody can thoroughly enjoy. The season is for four nights only, commencing on September 26, and the box plan will he opened at the D.LC. on September 20 at 9 a.m.