When Patsy Ferran was a little girl, her favourite film was My Fair Lady, the musical adaptation of Bernard Shaw’s archetypal rags-to-riches drama Pygmalion.
“The story in my family is that I didn’t speak at all until I was about four or five,” says the star of the recent West End revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, “but I could recite every beat and line of My Fair Lady, to the point where I broke the tape because I would watch it on repeat.”
