A Playful ‘Pygmalion’ from Bedlam? Bloody Likely.

From left: Annabel Capper, Edmund Lewis, Vaishnavi Sharma, Eric Tucker and Nigel Gore in “Pygmalion” in New York, March 16, 2018. The Bedlam theater company's fleet, appealing, overstretched revival stripped George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 drama of anything fusty, bringing the small audience face to face — and sometimes leg to leg — with its clever, vexing characters. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)