6The Daily Tar HeelThursday, March 24, 1983
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By KAREN ROSEN
Staff Writer
"Who's ter know Pygmalion is anthing to do with flower
girls?" asked Eliza Keefe, a 30-year-old flower girl who saw
George Bernard Shaw's play in 1914.
"He might have called it From Flower Girl to Duchess" said
Eliza. "We should have known what it was about then. Mister
Shaw can have this tip from me, free, gratis and fer nuffin."
Shaw never took her advice, but Broadway and Hollywood set
the story to music and called his Eliza My Fair Lady.
"The play is much more intriguing, evocative and provocative
than My Fair Lady" said Gregory Boyd, director of Pygmalion,
the Playmakers Repertory Company's season finale. The Shaw
classic will run tonight through April 10 at 8 p.m. in Playmakers
Theatre.
"It seemed appropriate to end the season with Pygmalion, be
ing spring and everything," Boyd said. "It's a slightly sardonic
romance."
The real Pygmalion was a sculptor and king of Cyprus in Greek
legend who hated women, but fell in love with his own ivory
statue of Aphrodite. The goddess was so touched by his prayers
that she gave life to the statue and Pygmalion married his crea
tion. Douglas Johnson, a New York actor, writer, director and
former Berkeley professor, injects life into Henry Higgins, who,
in turn, molds Eliza Doolittle, a coarse cockney flower girl, into a
lady Victorian society can accept. Kathryn Meisle, a first-year
graduate student in the Master of Fine Arts acting program, takes
the" spunky Eliza through her rigorous training in phonetics and
appearance. Meisle appeared on campus this year as Irina in
Three Sisters and Iphigenia in The Greeks, and is the first student
' to secure a leading role in a PRC production.
Johnson left New York, where he had just finished directing
Back to Back, a Vietnam comedy, to star as Higgins.
"Doug is the best director I know in the country," said Boyd,
who worked with Johnson at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in
California. "The story of Pygmalion is in itself a theatricalized
'Pygmalion
metaphor. Higgins is the ultimate director, taking Eliza and
transforming her personality. The requirement for an actor to
play Higgins is a superb comic sense. The theatricality that a stage
director would have makes Doug an exciting choice."
Playing Henry Higgins is a massive undertaking because the
phonetics teacher never leaves the stage.
Johnson said, "He's one of the typical Shaw men. He has in
credible mental capacity, unpredictableness ' and dynamic
theatricality. Roles like that are very scarce."
The hardest part about playing Higgins? "Remembering the
lines," Johnson said while sitting in Playmakers Theatre waiting
for a technical rehearsal to begin.
Higgins is a well-meaning chap, but he is not the type to go to
the pub with the boys. "I'm finding some kind of a balance in his
character so he's not all cerebral, and making him approachable
from an audience standpoint," Johnson said.
Johnson is a familiar face in television commercials. A recent
- sample of his promotional work includes appearing for Xerox
typewriters, Howard Johnson's and Purolator. Of his many
theatre-connected professions, Johnson prefers acting. He is
usually a comic actor, and he won a Bay Area Theatre Critics Cir
cle Award for A Flea in' Her Ear.
"Acting's more immediate and exciting," he said. "Everything
is right there in front of you and under control supposedly.
When you're writing, you're turning over your script, and when
you're directing, you're watching someone else."
Boyd, who is also an actor, has no qualms about prowling the ,
other side of the footlights for this play. "The actors are what's
making it happen," he said. "I have to do very little because
Shaw has written the play so completely. Most plays you have to
conjure the sound from, but Pygmalion sounds so wonderful
when it's spoken, one sits back and enjoys it during rehearsal in
stead of putting one's grubby fingerprints on it."
As vocal coach, Johanna Morrison, a guest artist at UNC and a
former speech instructor at the N.C. School of the Arts,, is
responsible for much of the sound of the play. She also performs
the dual roles of Mrs. Pearce and Mrs. Higgins, the professor's
mother.
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"We exploit that aspect," Boyd said.'These are the two kinds climax of Pygmalion is as compared to My Fair Lady's senti
of women who are able to run Higgins life for him as he tries to mental ending,' Boyd said. "Shaw" insists on a much more in
run Eliza's. i ; teresting and provocative ending."
"I think the audience will be surprised at how different the And you don't mess around with Shaw.
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"The Democrats have longly and loudly got
ten on to us for out-of-state campaigning, and
now they're doing the same thing," he said.
Fetzer cited the campaign fund's out-of-state
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sional Club's outside money from within the
state, so we have to get outside money too."
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tional liberals such as John Rockefeller.
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