"Despite having every opportunity, including an impressive cast, this 'Pygmalion' can’t quite elevate its status beyond bland revival."
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"...this performance somehow manages to keep this relatively old play fresh with outstanding acting, comic relief, and relevant commentary."
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“ ‘Pygmalion’ is a classic, and perhaps doesn’t need much doing to it. This production certainly doesn’t challenge its original message but it’s a succinct and entertaining celebration of a much-loved masterpiece.”
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"Staged in its original form with big stars Patsy Ferran and Bertie Carvel as the leads, this play is harder to love – somehow, it feels more obvious that its funniest lines are at the expense of a working-class woman who dares to step out of line..It’s a play that’s ripe for pulling apart and reimagining by a feminist director. For now, it feels like a curious thing: a glass showcase for Carvel and Ferran to fill with towering, uneasy displays of acting elan."
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"All in all, it’s an incredibly frustrating evening, a wasted revival of a play that for all its old-fashioned notions, still speaks resonantly – and impeccably – to the modern age."
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"The two stars [Bertie Carvel and Patsy Ferran] dominate amid a fine supporting cast, even if this is a weird choice of revival"
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"Jones has everyone moving constantly around the whole stage, so the production always looks busy, ants under a magnifying glass. But he’s doing to ‘Pygmalion’ what Higgins does to Eliza: treating it like an experiment. We’re left with an exercise in ‘Pygmalion’ which, for all its detail, forgets about the heart, the humour and, crucially, the humanity."
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"True, the bittersweet final third of Richard Jones’s characteristically capering production finds some of the grace and sting excluded from the preceding hour-plus. Yet by then you’ve been shouted at for so long by outsized characters trying so hard to be funny that it’s almost as if a fresh play has started. It is a loud and insistent evening."
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