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National Theatre’s five star award-winning hit comedy One Man, Two Guvnors comes to Cardiff |
Nicholas Hytner’s five star award-winning production of One Man, Two Guvnors will embark on a second UK tour visiting Cardiff, Wales Millennium Centre from 22 – 26 January 2012. Tickets go on general sale tomorrow - Friday 4 May 2012. One Man, Two Guvnors won the Evening Standard and Critics Circle Awards for Best New Play. The Broadway production, which opened in New York in April 2012, has garnered seven Tony Award nominations. This second UK tour, which also visits Leicester, Newcastle, Glasgow, Blackpool, Norwich, Leeds, Llandudno, Salford and Nottingham, will play alongside the show’s West End run and will be followed by an international tour. Casting will be announced shortly. In Richard Bean’s award-winning version of Carlo Goldoni’s classic Italian comedy, The Servant of Two Masters, sex, food and money are high on the agenda. 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 fiancee’s dad. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who’s 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 one Stanley Stubbers, who is hiding from the police and waiting to be re-united with Rachel. To prevent discovery, Francis must keep his two guvnors apart. Simple. With songs by Grant Olding, One Man, Two Guvnors Physical Comedy Director is Cal McCrystal, designs are by Mark Thompson, with lighting by Mark Henderson, sound design by Paul Arditti, fight direction by Kate Waters and choreography by Adam Penford. Richard Bean’s plays include England People Very Nice for the National, The Heretic, Harvest (winner of the Critics’ Circle Award for Best New Play), Honeymoon Suite, Under the Whaleback and Toast for the Royal Court and The Big Fellah for Out of Joint at the Lyric Hammersmith and on tour. He adapted David Mamet’s House of Games and wrote a new version of The Hypochondriac for the Almeida Theatre. Bean won the 2011 Evening Standard Award for Best Play for One Man, Two Guvnors and The Heretic. Since he became Director of the National in April 2003, Nicholas Hytner has directed Henry V, His Dark Materials, The History Boys, Stuff Happens, Henry IV, Southwark Fair, The Alchemist, The Man of Mode, The Rose Tattoo (with Stephen Pimlott), Rafta, Rafta … , Much Ado About Nothing, Major Barbara, England People Very Nice, Phèdre, The Habit of Art, London Assurance, Hamlet and Collaborators. One Man, Two Guvnors runs at Wales Millennium Centre from 22 – 26 January 2013. Tickets range from £18 to £45 and go on sale on Friday 4 May 2012. To book, visit www.wmc.org ‘one of the funniest productions in the National’s history’ The Guardian ‘deliriously daft and diabolically joke stuffed entertainment’ The Independent ‘pure comic bliss.’ Evening Standard ‘a rich, slow-spreading smile.’ The New York Times |
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