Last week I saw One Man Two Guvnors. Which is based on One Servant Two Masters.
If you go in early there is a nice surprise on stage. Thanks to Michelle for letting me know in time.
It is a comedy, that, to me, harks back to films like Laurel and Hardy or Abbott and Costello. That's just for the sheer amount physical comedy going on. I'm sure there are some bruises after each show.
The jokes are silly, good humoured type jokes. I never noticed any rude or offencive jokes, the show doesn't really give you time to breathe from one joke to the next.
Rufus Hound makes a great lead as Frances Henshall. A man hired as muscle for a local gangster, yet while he is sorting lodgings for his boss, another man asks him to work for him. Yet poor Frances gets confused very easily and a lot of things start to wrong.
I'm glad I didn't know much about Rufus Hound as it helped to believe in his character. There are only sixteen main characters who double up on characters so seamlessly you don't even notice.
I did feel for the first two rows of the audience, as they became part of the show, the whole auditorium at times were in on the action.
I have never been in a theatre, where at the interval everyone is grinning or giggling as you pass them. It is such an upbeat atmosphere. I'm over the moon I got to see it.
Bring tissues. Glad I did. I laughed so hard that tears streamed down my face, also waterproof eyeliner. I looked a bit like a panda. But I wasn't the only one!
To go into detail would actually spoil it. I can think of a few scenes. Me being the chatterbox that I am, some people actually said they had been told of scenes and it spoiled some of the experience for them.
The clips on Youtube don't do the show justice, doesn't capture the magic of live theatre. It looks flat on Youtube.
So if it comes to you check it out. You will not be disappointed.
Health warning. May cause laughing!
