HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, KY – Northern Kentucky University | School of the Arts | Program of Theatre and Dance presents PYGMALION March 29 – April 3, 2016.
Performances will take place in the Stauss Theatre in the Fine Arts Center. All performances are sold out. The wait list policy can be found online at theatre.nku.edu on the Box Office page.
PYGMALION
By George Bernard Shaw
March 29 – April 3, 2016 | NKU Robert and Rosemary Stauss Theatre
PYGMALION—written over a century ago—continues to provide hilarious entertainment and sharp social commentary that resonates today. A chance encounter between Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl, and Henry Higgins, a world expert on speech, inspires a bet that he can transform her into a lady. As Higgins strives to do the impossible, Shaw employs his trademark wit to examine issues of class and independence. Later adapted into the hit musical My Fair Lady, Shaw’s original tale is not one of romance, but of transformation and self-identity.
Sandra Forman, professor of performance, directs the production. This will be the final NKU production directed by Ms. Forman, who is set to retire at the end of the spring semester. In addition to directing and performing on the NKU stage, she has served for many years as the director of the Y.E.S. Festival of New Plays.
Sandra Forman (Director)
NKU: Favorite directing credits include The Bacchae, As You Like It, Nunsense, Nuncrakers, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Bus Stop, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Little Women – the Musical and the Y.E.S. Festival world premieres of Dorian, The Musical, Nightjars and One Good Turn. Performance credits include Amanda in The Glass Menagerie, Liz in Ladyhouse Blues, Mary in The Rimers Of Eldritch and Jean Louise in To Kill a Mockingbird. She has also served as the project director for the Y.E.S. Festival of New Plays.
Elsewhere: Ms. Forman has appeared as “Queen Eleanor” in The Lion In Winter at Bas Bleu Theatre in Colorado, “Meg” in The Hostage with North Carolina Shakespeare, “Lady Alyce” in A Man For All Seaons for Downtown Theatre Classics in Cincinnati. She has directing credits with Virginia Shakespeare, as well as in Spain, Austria and France. Ms. Forman has appeared in outdoor dramas, dinner theatres and toured Europe with the USO in the 60s entertaining our military. She is the author of three books.
For more information call the NKU School of the Arts Box Office at 859.572.5464 or visit theatre.nku.edu.
Director Cathie Melvin is looking for 7 women and 12 men, with ages ranging 20s to 70s. Various size parts from large to small. Auditioners will be asked to do readings from the script. Auditions start both nights (March 14 and 15) at 7pm at the Barn in the Park.
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