Category: Richard Bean

Photo by Bob Seary New Theatre presents HARVEST by Richard Bean at the New Theatre, Newtown. 7th October – 8th November. Richard Bean became a playwright late, at 39. Since 1995, when he wrote a libretto for an opera, PARADISE OF FOOLS, he has finished some 23 works for the theatre. He will be a familiar name for those of us who saw the Royal National Theatre touring production of his adaptation of Goldoni’s A SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS: the comically glorious, ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS (2011), last year at the Sydney Theatre. This year, 2014, alone, he has written PITCAIRN…

National Theatre presents ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS – a new play by Richard Bean based on THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS by Carlo Goldoni with songs by Grant Olding, by arrangement with the Theatre Royal Haymarket Company, London. I saw this production in London in early January, 2013.I had also seen the broadcast of this production from the Lyttelton Theatre at the National at the Chauvel Cinema, Paddington, last year.So, twice!! (Different casts). ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS by Richard Bean is an adaptation of Carlo Goldoni’s THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS which was a reworking of an old Commedia Dell’Arte scenario:…