Chaos and
comedy
One Man, Two Guvnors
Newcastle
Theatre Royal
Until
Saturday 2 August 2014.
2014 has been a
good year for comedy at the theatre in our region and One Man, Two Guvnors is no exception. It is a tight production
which keeps the audience roaring with laughter.
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Richard Bean’s
story has moved Carlo Goldoni’s The
Servant Of Two Masters to 1963 Brighton
and in doing so has licence for a lot of humour which will appeal to the
British sense of humour. The National
Theatre productions are renowned for fabulous casts and this is no exception. The first scene opens with the engagement
party of Pauline and Alan. Jasmyn Banks and Edward Hancock do a great job of
representing the opposite ends of the education spectrum without overplaying
it. A similar battle of the brains is played out between Pauline’s Dad, Charlie
‘The Duck’ Clench and Alans’s Dad who is the “No win – same fee” solicitor
Harry Dangle. Add into the mix the sassy Dolly and former Parkhurst resident
Lloyd, performed by the sharp witted Emma Barton and Derek Elroy. The
supporting cast do a brilliant job at setting up many of the funny lines.
Tension, and much
fun, starts when the previous fiancé, the murdered Roscoe Crabbe apparently
appears with his henchman Francis Henshall. These two leads have been extremely
well cast as Alicia Davies and Gavin Spokes are able to manipulate the show and
make it appear fresh and spontaneous each evening. This is no mean feet in
comedy. Add the arrival of the second Guvnor Stanley Stubbers, with his
boarding school jokes executed by Patrick Warner, and the slapstick begins. Francis tries to keep his two guvnors happy
when they both move into the local pub. The pace of the action never slows as
plot unfolds.
The jokes are
never cruel or out of place in a modern theatre and the audience are given many
opportunities to laugh. The
Vaudeville humour
is supplemented by the perfect timing of Michael Dylan as the waiter Alfie who
helplessly collides with set and the musicians The Craze led by musical director Philip Murray Warson, who pop up
at each scene change.
One Man, Two Guvnors is marvellous show full of highly
entertaining mischief from a superb cast.
One Man, Two
Guvnors appears at Newcastle Theatre Royal from Monday 28 July – Saturday 2
August.
Tickets are available
from £12 (a booking fee of 95p - £1.95 will apply to most tickets) and can be
purchased from the Theatre Royal Box Office on 08448 11 21 21 or select your
own seat and book online at www.theatreroyal.co.uk
Website: www.onemantwoguvnors.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/1Man2Guvnors
This review was written by Stephen Oliver for
Jowheretogo PR (www.jowheretogo.com).
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The Tour:
Newcastle Theatre
Royal 28 July – 2
August 2014
Dartford Orchard
Theatre 4 August – 9
August 2014
The Waterside,
Aylesbury 11 August – 16
August 2014
Crawley Hawth 18
August – 23 August 2014
Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent 25
August – 30 August 2014
Liverpool Empire 1
September – 6 September 2014
Theatre Royal,
Bath 8 September – 20
September 2014
Royal &
Derngate, Northampton 22
September – 27 September 2014
The Marlowe
Theatre, Canterbury 29
September – 2 October 2014
Leicester Curve 6
October – 11 October 2014
His Majesty’s
Theatre, Aberdeen 13
October – 18 October 2014
Hall For Cornwall 20
October – 25 October 2014
Leeds, Grand Theatre 4 November – 8 November 2014
Grand Theatre, Belfast 10
November -17 November 2014
Bord Gáis Energy
Theatre, Dublin 17
November – 22 November 2014
Norwich, Theatre Royal 24 November – 29 November 2014
Swan Theatre, High Wycombe 1
December – 6 December 2014
Brighton, Theatre Royal 16 December 2014 – 3 January 2015
Salford, Lowry 12
January – 17 January 2014
Sunderland Empire, Sunderland 19
January – 24 January 2015
Theatre Royal, Nottingham 26
January – 31 January 2015
The Churchill
Theatre, Bromley 2 February – 7
February 2015
New Theatre, Cardiff 9
February – 14 February 2015
Festival Theatre,
Edinburgh 16
February – 21 February 2015
New Theatre, Oxford 23
February– 28 February 2015
New Wimbledon
Theatre 2 March – 7
March 2015
Grand Opera
House, York 9 March – 14 March
Wolverhampton
Grand Theatre 16 March – 21
March 2015
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