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 Photo ©Tony Reading 2008 |
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 The Servant of Two Masters, written as a comedy in 1746 by Carlo
Goldoni. Both the play and the slapstick has been brought up to date and
modernised by Richard Bean - the plot sort of lives on as the basis
for an almost choreographed set of hilarious interactions.
It has had high praise on the funny side: "One of the funniest productions in the National's history." - Guardian "The single funniest production I've ever seen." - Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 THE STORY
Francis is a greedy fat boy at heart and to get some more food he takes a job with another guvnor which is no other than Stanley Stubbers, Stanley fondly hopes to be re-united with Rachel who is rather busy getting the £6000 posing as the man her boyfriend Stanley has killed. Francis is engaged upon the task of making sure that the two don't run into each other - no matter what - he has to keep the two of them from meeting.
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Francis Henshall is only a skiffle player that didn't make it. He was
fired from the group. Gets a job as a minder to one guvenor Roscoe
Crabbe. He's a bit of an East End crook. They went to Brighton to
collect money, a cool £6,000 from his fiancée's dad. Roscoe is in
reality his twin sister Rachel who is impersonating her own dead
brother who is owed the money, Roscoe was killed by her boyfriend
Stanley Stubbers who is hiding from the police in a pub in Brighton
unaware to the proximity of Rachel.