Professor David Peimer
My Fair Lady
Summary
Is ‘My Fair Lady’ just a playful, nostalgic trip through class hierarchy in a long-gone English era full of great tunes we can hum along to? Or is there another reason why the musical endures and endears today?
Professor David Peimer
David Peimer is a professor of theatre and performance studies in the UK. He has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and New York University (Global Division), and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Born in South Africa, David has won numerous awards for playwriting and directing. He has written eleven plays and directed forty in places like South Africa, New York, Brussels, London, Berlin, Zulu Kingdom, Athens, and more. His writing has been published widely and he is the editor of Armed Response: Plays from South Africa (2009) and the interactive digital book Theatre in the Camps (2012). He is on the board of the Pinter Centre in London.
No Marni Nixon was the singer for all the songs, so she’s lip syncing, Audrey Hepburn, except “Just Your Wait, Henry Higgins.” She sings that herself.