James Corden's Tony award-winning performance in the farce as out-of-work skiffle player Francis Henshall is beyond anything you might have seen him in before.
Henshall becomes separately employed by gangster Roscoe Crabbe and Stanley Stubbers, an upper class twit. He tries to keep the two from meeting to avoid each of them learning that he is working for someone else.
Roscoe is actually Rachel Crabbe in disguise. Her twin brother Roscoe was killed by her boyfriend, Stanley. Complicating events even further is local mobster Charlie the Duck, who has arranged his daughter Pauline's engagement to Roscoe despite her preference for over-the-top amateur actor Alan Dangle.
Further complications are prompted by several letters, a very heavy trunk, several unlucky audience volunteers, a ridiculously decrepit waiter who suffers much of the knockabout comedy in the production, and Francis' pursuit of his twin passions: buxom Dolly and food.
The basic plot, and most of the characters, are established in a living room scene at the beginning, but the show really takes off after a scene change that transports the audience to a street setting outside The Cricketers Arms.
The play includes musical interludes by ‘60s styled band The Craze (a homonym for the Krays, the twin brothers who once ruled the London underworld).
One Man, Two Guvnors can be viewed on You Tube via or go straight to the show at
Upcoming NTL free screenings include Jane Eyre, an innovative reimagining of Charlotte Brontë's masterpiece, which begins tonight at 7pm and runs until Thursday next week.
Beginning at 7pm on the same night, April 16, is Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson's story of murder, money and mutiny. It's one-week season ends on Thursday, April 23, and a production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, a strange comedy in which nobody is quite what they seem, then begins.
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