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About this book
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.
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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