Kara Tointon says that playing Dawn in EastEnders taught her "absolutely everything".
It did not teach her how to talk posh though. Tointon is much more convincing as Liza Doolittle, the cockney flower-seller than she is as a fake duchess. And nor does Rupert Everett convince as the academic who teaches Liza how to talk proper. But Bernard Shaw's study of class hypocrisy is so beautifully observed, and Peter Eyre and Michael Feast are so perfectly cast as the plummy Colonel Pickering and Liza's opportunistic dad, that Philip Prowse's solid production is still one of the most satisfying offerings on the London stage.
