One Man, Two Guvnors at The Belfry Theatre

Brighton, England. 1963. Change is in the air, and Francis Henshall is looking to make his
mark. Fired from a skiffle band and in search of work, he finds himself employed by smalltime
gangster Roscoe Crabbe, in town to collect a fee from his fiancée's gangster father.
But Roscoe is really Rachel, posing as her own dead brother, herself in love with Stanley
Stubbers (her brother’s killer) who, in turn, becomes our hero’s other 'guvnor'. Fighting a
mounting sense of confusion, Francis goes out of his way to serve both bosses. But with
the distractions of a pneumatic book keeper, a self-important actor and select members of
the criminal fraternity (not to mention his own mammoth appetite) to contend with, how
long can he keep them apart?

Authors

• Carlo Goldoni
• Richard Bean