The 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 Guvnors
Based 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 Marx
Creditors, 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
Marx.
The Hypocrite
April 1642. Sir John Hotham, Governor of Hull, is charged by Parliament
to secure the arsenal at Hull and deny entry to King Charles I. If only
it were that simple. With a Royalist siege outside the city walls and
the rebellion of the mob within, Civil War seems inevitable and losing
his head more than probable.