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Book SynopsisThe sixth collection of plays from award-winning playwright Richard Bean, including the world-conquering hit
One Man, Two Guvnors, as well as
Young Marx, his riotous take on Karl Marx''s life in London, which launched London''s new Bridge Theatre and
The Hypocrite, a historical-farcical romp that lit up Hull''s year as City of Culture.
One Man, Two GuvnorsBased on Carlo Goldoni's classic Italian comedy
The Servant of Two Masters, sex, food and money are high on the agenda.
Winner of the both 2011 Evening Standard Theatre Best New Play & Critic''s Circle Best New Play awards.Young MarxCreditors, spies, rival revolutionary factions and prospective seducers of his beautiful wife all circle like vultures. His writing blocked, his marriage dying, his friend Engels in despair at his wasted genius, his only hope is a job on the railway. But there's still no one in the capital who can show you a better night on the piss than Karl Heinrich M
Trade ReviewThe Hypocrite serves as a scabrous, bawdy, witty, often flagrantly silly love-letter to Hull and its purported place in a crucial moment of national history... it hits the bull’s-eye...Richard Bean returns to
One Man, Two Guvnors form with a brilliantly entertaining new farce. * Telegraph *
Young Marx, a wily, fast-paced comedy * Independent *
One Man, Two Guvnors - You would had to have had a humour by-pass not to enjoy it. * Guardian *
Table of ContentsIntroduction One Man, Two Guvnors by Richard Bean Young Marx by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman The Hypocrite by Richard Bean
