ALL this month at Manchester's Library Theatre the walls are reverberating with the ear-splitting sound of a Cockney accent that could crack flags.
A brilliant production of Pygmalion, the classic Bernard Shaw tale of a girl from the gutter who is transformed into a Duchess, runs until March 9.
Zoe Henry is excellent as Eliza Doolittle, a loud-mouthed flower girl with a fog-horn Cockney accent, who traipses round early 20th century London streets bamboozling passers-by into buying her wares with all the panache of a dustman clanging dustbins.
Christopher Wright is also impressive as the coldly refined Professor Higgins who decides to try out a little 'experiment' on Eliza.
He takes her under his wing, gives her new clothes and teaches her to speak like the Queen as part of an elaborate ruse to trick his social peers into thinking Eliza is a Duchess.
Even though Pygmalion -- later to become the smash-hit musical My Fair Lady -- is full of 1913 social comment it is still relevant today.
For performance and ticket details call 0161 236 7110.
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