Pygmalion

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

We’ve been circling this one for a long time. It’s finally time to discuss George Bernard Shaw’s famous play, Pygmalion. In this episode we discussed the originally source material (briefly), Shaw’s thematic interests, the complex dilemma he’s setting up for himself, Higgins as a character, and so much more. Plus, with the help of special guest, we present a “table-read” of a key scene. Happy listening!

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0:00.0	Hey there, I'm David Kern.
0:04.0	I'm Heidi White.
0:05.7	And I'm Tim McIntosh.
0:07.1	You were listening to Close Reads, a podcast for The Incurable Reader on which we are discussing George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion.
0:15.7	Tim, it's drama time.
0:17.4	It's drama week.
0:18.2	It's playtime.
0:18.9	Yeah, playtime.
0:19.7	Exactly.
0:20.4	Oh, it's drama week. I like that. It's drama week. It's playtime. Yeah. Playtime. Exactly. Oh, it's drama week.
0:21.1	I like that.
0:21.5	It's drama week on close reads.
0:22.9	And you are the drama king.
0:26.0	Very dramatic.
0:27.2	I have strong emotions.
0:28.6	Oh.
0:29.2	This is a sweet moment.
0:31.0	Were you a drama king as a child?
0:34.2	No. My brother and I used to put on performances for my parents when we were kids, and we
0:40.3	had this really clever idea. This was back in the 80s when like knee-high tube socks were in
0:46.3	fashion. So my brother and I would kind of tumble out of bed, and we would go, like kind of work up a
0:51.4	play. And as if we were wearing a necktie, we would hang one of these long tube socks from our
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