Richard Bean Plays 6

One Man, Two Guvnors; Young Marx; The Hypocrite

Richard Bean

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781350183674
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Theatre Playwriting

The sixth collection of plays from award-winning playwright Richard Bean, including the world-conquering hit One Man, Two Guvnors, as well as Young Mar x, 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.

The Hypocrite

The Hypocrite was co-produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Hull Truck Theatre and Hull UK City of Culture 2017. It was first performed at Hull Truck Theatre on 24 February 2017. The production transferred to the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon on 31 March 2017. It featured the following cast and crew:

Sir John Hotham	Mark Addy
Lord Mayor Barnard	Martin Barrass
Drudge Scullion	Danielle Bird
Messenger/Soldier/Local	Rachel Dale
Peregrine Pelham MP	Neil D’Souza
Connie	Laura Elsworthy
King Charles I/Ghost	Ben Goffe
Sweet Lips/Mademoiselle Frottage	Danielle Henry
Executioner/Captain Moyer	Adrian Hood
Captain Jack	Asif Khan
Hugh Peters/Messenger/Soldier	Andrew Langtree
James, Duke of York	Jordan Metcalfe
Frances Hotham	Sarah Middleton
Durand Hotham	Pierro Niel-Mee
Prince Rupert of the Rhine	Rowan Polonski
Albert Calvert	Paul Popplewell
Lady Sarah Hotham	Caroline Quentin
The Ranter	Josh Sneesby
John Saltmarsh	Matt Sutton

All other parts played by members of the Company.

Director Phillip Breen

Designer Max Jones

Lighting Designer Tina MacHugh

Music and Lyrics Grant Olding

Sound Designer Andrea J. Cox

Stunts and Movement Annie Lees-Jones

Fight Director Renny Krupinski

Illusionist Chris Fisher

Text and Voice Work Michaela Kennen

Assistant Director Becky Hope-Palmer

Music Director Phill Ward

RSC Casting Directors Helena Palmer, Matthew Dewsbury

Dramaturg Pippa Hill

Production Manager Jacqui Leigh

Production Manager Carl Root

Costume Supervisor Sian Thomas

Props Supervisor Beckie May

Company Stage Manager Paul Sawtell

Deputy Stage Manager Bryony Rutter

Assistant Stage Manager Amy Hawthorne

Rehearsal Musical Director Paul Frankish

Hull Truck Theatre Producer Rowan Rutter

RSC Producer Kevin Fitzmaurice

Musicians Guitar/mandolin/percussion/voice Phill Ward,

double bass Adam Jarvis

Set

An open stage that can become indoor rooms and outdoor street scenes, both London and Hull.

Props

Some props need to be engineered: the vase, the trunk, the collapsing bed, the ‘walk through the wall’ ghost panel, etc.

Characters

Sir John Hotham, fifty-three

Lady Sarah Hotham, late thirties/early forties

Durand, son, early twenties

Frances, daughter, late twenties

Captain Jack, twenty-five

Connie, maid/cook, forty

Drudge Scullion, 108, no one’s entirely sure

Captain Moyer, thirties

Sweet Lips/Mademoiselle Frottage, thirties/forties

John Saltmarsh, thirties

Lord Mayor Barnard, fifties

Albert Calvert, money lender, forties

Peregrine Pelham MP, fifty-six

Duke of York, eighteen

Prince Rupert, twenty-one

Charles I, forty-two

Ghost, double with Charles I

The Ranter, a lone punk songsmith, male or female

Ensemble to play all other parts.

Prologue

London, 1645. Before the Tower of London. An execution block and basket on a plinth. The mob mill and wait for the execution. Costermongers, cutpurses, beggars, soldiers. Chuggers try to collect money and signatures for the Ranters, Seekers, Anabaptists, Familists, Levellers, Diggers from the audience. Each actor is knowledgeable about their movement and has pamphlets. Entrepreneurs try and sell souvenir block and axe carvings.

Costermonger One Thames oysters! Surprise the wife!

Costermonger Two Sea coals?! Come on, muvver, sort it out! (etc. throughout pre-show)

Enter Connie, speaking with a Hull accent.

Connie

In a world turned upside down

Our story starts at the end.

The epilog...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Introduction Michael Coveney
• One Man, Two Guvnors
• Young Marx
• The Hypocrite
• eCopyright