SSCC Theatre proudly presents George Bernard Shaw’s classic comedy, Pygmalion, opening tonight at 7:30pm. The show continues this weekend on Saturday at 7:30 and Sunday at 3:30pm.

Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw’s feminist views. In Shaw’s hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins (played by Benjamin Gullett) is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle (Veronica Carpenter), a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his ‘creation’ has a mind of her own. The success of Pygmalion led to the creation of the well received musical and film, My Fair Lady.

Tickets are available by clicking here for only $6. At the door, they are $8 for general admission and $6 for students/faculty (with ID). For more information about Pygmalion, click here.