One Man, Two Guvnors at Arts Centre Melbourne Playhouse

It was one of Broadway’s hottest tickets and the darling of the West End.

Now, after a sold out, five-star, award-winning season in the West End, Arts Centre Melbourne and MTC are bringing the National Theatre of Great Britain’s smash hit comedy, One Man, Two Guvnors, to Melbourne featuring the entire UK cast.

Based on Carlo Goldoni's opera The Servant of Two Masters, Richard Bean’s multi-award-winning play helmed by Nicholas Hytner is a hilarious new adaptation that sees a cast of 17 dance, punch and tumble their way through the classic plot, with new songs by Grant Olding.

Francis Henshall is hungry. He desperately needs a job after being sacked from his skiffle band. And if two jobs come his way, why shouldn’t he take both? So Francis becomes the minder of Roscoe Crabbe, a vicious London bovver boy, but he’s also running errands around Brighton for a chinless wonder going by the name of Stanley Stubbers. Two guvnors, two pay days, two meal tickets. And as long as they don’t meet each other – it’s money for jam, times two!

Authors

• Carlo Goldoni
• Richard Bean