Pygmalion

Professor Henry Higgins, author of Higgins Universal Alphabet, is persuaded to transform Eliza Doolittle from a cockney flower girl into a duchess, by teaching her to speak ‘properly’. Convinced of his superiority through birth, wealth and because he’s a man, we observe his teaching methods with a mixture of amusement and distaste. For Henry, Eliza is an object to be manipulated so that he can prove a point. But, of course, as the experiment proceeds, Eliza grows in confidence and is determined that ‘her voice’ will be heard and her feelings understood.