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NATIONAL THEATRE’S FIVE STAR AWARD-WINNING HIT COMEDY TO STAR
RUFUS HOUND
ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS
Actor, stand-up comedian and presenter Rufus Hound will lead the cast in Nicholas
Hytner’s five star award-winning production of One Man, Two Guvnors for its
second UK tour in autumn 2012. Rufus will play the lead role of Francis Henshall at
Blackpool’s Grand Theatre (27 Nov. – 1 Dec.), followed by an international tour. This
second UK tour will play alongside the show’s West End run.
Rufus Hound is best known as a comedian and TV and radio personality, where his
work includes seven series of the award-winning Celebrity Juice, the BBC sitcom
Hounded, 8 out of 10 Cats, The Xtra Factor, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and the
forthcoming primetime comedy show Mad Mad World (ITV1). Radio work includes
Act Your Age and My Teenage Diary for Radio 4, as well as his own comedy show
What’s So Funny. He is currently making his professional stage debut in Utopia at
The Soho Theatre, while film credits include My Big Fat Gypsy Gangster and the
forthcoming films Wedding Video and Wingman, both scheduled for release later this
year.
One Man, Two Guvnors won the Evening Standard and Critics Circle Awards for
Best New Play; a Broadway production opened in New York in April 2012. UK critics
have called One Man, Two Guvnors ‘one of the funniest productions in the National’s
history’ (The Guardian), ‘deliriously daft and diabolically joke stuffed entertainment’
(The Independent) and ‘pure comic bliss.’ (Evening Standard), while The New York
Times described it as ‘a rich, slow-spreading smile.’
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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.
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22 June 2012
For further information, contact:
Emma Rampley 01253 743213
emmar@blackpoolgrand.co.uk
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