A loverly 'My Fair Lady'
[Just as Cape Rep’s production of My Fair Lady , directed by Kim Weild, is currently running to great acclaim in Brewster, Cape Cod, Budleigh Salterton theatre audiences have been enjoying Sweet Charity , the ex-Broadway show staged by members of London’s Imperial College Operatic Society http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/arts/opsoctour/home/index.php . What better illustration could there be of those close cultural links between Britain and America’s East Coast which show us that the Atlantic Ocean is just a pond? That’s in spite of the somewhat acerbic observation by George Bernard Shaw, creator of Eliza Doolittle and Professor Higgins, that “England and America are two countries separated by a common language.” “Cape Rep Theatre's production of My Fair Lady goes the extra mile,” was the verdict from Gwenn Friss, writing in the Cape Cod Times of 1 August 2009: “Take the set changes: Each one is a little mimed play-within-a-play. In one, stagehands synchronize their movements in removi...