Book Description | A masterpiece of Al-Hakim's theatre, inspired by the ancient Greek myth, written in 1942,
After watching a "film reel" of Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion".
Al-Hakim's play represents an ancient Greek myth revolving around the Cypriot king "Pygamelion"
Director Bernard Shaw. He was a lover of women of his time, and perhaps hated them, so he made a beautiful statue of a woman he called "Galatia" and then fell in love with this statue, and prayed to the goddess "Aphrodite"; the goddess of love and beauty, to give him a beautiful woman like his statue, she responded - in her own way - by giving life to the statue itself, so it was transformed into a living woman. |