One Man, Two Guvnors

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Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small-time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect 6,000 from his fiances dad. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, whos been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers. Holed up at The Cricketers Arms, the permanently ravenous Francis spots the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a second job with Stanley Stubbers, who is hiding from the police and waiting to be reunited with Rachel. To prevent discovery, Francis must keep his two guvnors apart. Simple. Winner of the Outer Critics Circle award for Best Play.

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"Splendidly silly - One Man" is, like Mr. Corden's grin, both satanic and seraphic, dirty-minded and utterly innocent - ideal escapism for anxious times.' New York Times 'Deliriously funny' Washington Post 'Gobsmackingly funny - this virtuoso banquet of slapstick farce and verbal jousting brings with it a shocking revelation: How starved we were for comedy.' Time Out New York 'Few theatregoing experiences are as joyously liberating - Striking an ingenious balance between meticulous planning and what plays like anarchic spontaneity. the show now looks set to slay Broadway' Hollywood Reporter 'I laughed my goddamn head off.' Financial Times 'One Man, Two Guvnors is the hoot of the season - I dare you to see it and not laugh out loud, a lot.' Philadelphia Inquirer "

Author Bio

RICHARD BEAN, a renowned British playwright has had plays staged worldwide. An award winning writer his first full length play, Of Rats and Men went to Edinburgh & was adapted for BBC radio where it was nominated for a Sony Award. This was followed by Toast, a hit at the Royal Court. His other plays have been staged at the National Theatre, the Bush Theatre and the Hampstead theatre. Bean also won the 2005 Critics' Circle Theatre Best New Play Award for Harvest. Beans latest play The Big Fellah opened to rave reviews and was nominated for the 2010 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best New Play.