Mrs Pat

A play about Mrs Patrick Campbell, pivoting around her troubled friendship with George Bernard Shaw. She played the first Eliza in his play Pygmallion. She was a troubled and hurting soul who had the sharpest of wits, and has given the modern world many entertaining one-liners such as 'Does it really matter what these affectionate people do— so long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses!'.

As a premiered production though the whole thing was rather weary, drawn out and not helped by the soft toy pekinese which was attempting to be the same hound spanning a whole lifetime's work ... that was weird. The arrival of George Bernard Shaw and then their vitriolic argument near the end of the play, where they came to some kind of accommodation of one another, was of some interest but only that. I think a two and a half out of ten.