Pygmalion at The Garrick Theatre, London A Show to Talk about at the Garrick Theatre Rupert Everett & Kara Tointon co-star in this West End revival of George Bernard Shaw’s romantic comedy, Pygmalion. A Covent Garden flower seller, Eliza Doolittle (Kara Tointon), finds herself at the centre of a wager between a phonetics expert & a colonel that the former (Professor Higgins played by Rupert Everett) can pass Eliza off as a duchess by teaching her to speak in perfect English. Pygmalion was the inspiration for the memorable 1964 Audrey Hepburn film, My Fair Lady.