One Man, Two Guvnors

A new production of the award-winning National Theatre comedy play.

Brighton, 1963. Essex wide-boy Francis Henshall is minder to Roscoe Crabbe, who is in town to collect money from his fiancee’s dad.

But Roscoe is really Rachel, his sister, posing as her brother who has been killed by her boyfriend, Stanley Stubbers.

Henshall takes an opportunity to make a few extra bob helping Stubbers as well as Roscoe. To avoid them finding out, he tries to keep his two guvnors apart.

In Richard Bean’s modern re-telling of Carlo Goldini’s The Servant of Two Masters, that is easier said than done.