London theatre bosses have been branded 'daft' for slapping a trigger warning on a production of Pygmalion, the classic play that inspired My Fair Lady
London theatre bosses have been branded "daft" for putting a trigger warning on a production of Pygmalion, the early 20th century play that inspired My Fair Lady.Pygmalion, written by George Bernard Shaw and first performed in 1913, depicts professor Henry Higgins trying to teach Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle how to speak 'correct English' and become an elegant lady of polite society.
The play became the basis of the 1964 film classic My Fair Lady, starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison. But people buying tickets for a new production of Pygmalion at the famous Old Vic theatre, close to Waterloo Station - for as much as £140 - have been warned that the play "contains portrayals of abuse, abusive language and coercive control."
Former Conservative MP and Strictly Come Dancing participant Ann Widdecombe said of the new trigger warning: "This is so daft it beggars belief."One wonders what the point of it all really is," she told the Sun. "As Eliza Doolittle might say, ‘Coercive control, duck? Not Pygmalion likely!" The play itself is based on the story of a Greek sculptor called Pygmalion, who fell in love with a statue that he had carved himself.
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