Pygmalion at Oak Park Festival Theatre

Chicago Tribune - Recommended

"...But Drinkall needs few adjustments. She moves from no-filters Eliza, replete with the multisyllabic outburst of "Ah-ow-ooh!" in its many Cockney permutations, to an assured young woman who still doesn't know exactly who she's supposed to be. Higgins and Pickering may have turned her into a "duchess," but she longs for something authentically hers. Unfortunately for any woman who enters the public eye, the way she speaks and the way she looks will always threaten to circumscribe her circumstances."

Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended

"...This current revival, directed by Jason Gerace, emphasizes the darker elements in a witty meditation on class and sexual politics-there's more than a whiff of Christian Grey in Kevin Theis's overtly aggressive Henry Higgins, and the sexual tension between him and Amanda Drinkall's streetwise Eliza Doolittle, is always faintly sizzling. Likewise, every repetition of Eliza's iconic line "I'm a good girl, I am" reminds us how common it is for a woman like her to be sexually exploited by a man like Higgins."