Shaw's writing on his own plays is like reading criticism from Mars.
It really is! He’s one of those people who unknowingly contributed to my development (such as it is) by demonstrating that a person could be highly intelligent and also extremely wrong about some things, and that I was therefore allowed to disagree with the printed page.
Thank you for the link! I’ve seen some clips of They Flew Alone on YouTube.
ETA: The 1938 Pygmalion actually ruined me for My Fair Lady
I’ve seen the movie of My Fair Lady, and I saw it onstage years ago in a production that was pretty clearly influenced by the movie. Higgins was played by John Noble, who iirc leant more towards the charismatically-rude interpretation. I mostly woke up for the five-minute cameo by Eric Donkin as Zoltan Karpathy — I’d imprinted on Donkin as a child watching the filmed-for-tv version of the Stratford Festival’s Mikado (he was Ko-Ko).
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Date: 2024-03-02 03:59 pm (UTC)From:It really is! He’s one of those people who unknowingly contributed to my development (such as it is) by demonstrating that a person could be highly intelligent and also extremely wrong about some things, and that I was therefore allowed to disagree with the printed page.
Thank you for the link! I’ve seen some clips of They Flew Alone on YouTube.
ETA: The 1938 Pygmalion actually ruined me for My Fair Lady
I’ve seen the movie of My Fair Lady, and I saw it onstage years ago in a production that was pretty clearly influenced by the movie. Higgins was played by John Noble, who iirc leant more towards the charismatically-rude interpretation. I mostly woke up for the five-minute cameo by Eric Donkin as Zoltan Karpathy — I’d imprinted on Donkin as a child watching the filmed-for-tv version of the Stratford Festival’s Mikado (he was Ko-Ko).