I had heard of Pygmalion before we started reading, but I never even knew it was a play. When I began, I was glad to see it was fairly easy and entertaining to read, except for the first bit of the attempt at the flower girl's dialect. That took a few times to get through.
I actually found the beginning of this play to be quite humorous. First, the townspeople think Higgins is a cop and for some reason the flower girl is extremely scared of this. Throughout the first act, the flower girl is ridiculous and made me laugh because pf her extremely unnecessary reactions to everything. I literally laughed out loud when Higgins ans Pickering find each other without knowing it when they were looking for one another all along. And then, to top it off, poor Freddy comes back with a cab finally and the two ladies have gone off to the bus and left him! This is certainly a great start and I'm not even to Act 2 yet.
I completely agree with you! This is a great start to the play. I also found myself laughing at the scene where the flower girl was doing a little bit much with her reactions toward Higgins. From the beginning of act 1, I liked how the author started off with dialogue with a few people that weren't really important to the scene. They were just there for extra laughs.
ReplyDeleteI agree - it was definitely a challenge to get through the Cockney accent in the beginning! I ended up reading it out loud a few times to try to recognize the words hidden in the sounds, and then I just felt silly when I heard my voice! Any actors who ever play the part of the flower girl would have to be extremely talented, since they would have to transform their way of speaking every time the play was preformed.
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