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WOS Radio: Bean & cast share Guvnors thoughts at Q&A

Last night we returned to the Theatre Royal, Haymarket for our second Whatsonstage.com Outing to One Man, Two Guvnors, the multi-award winning comedy by Richard Bean that has caused a sensation of both sides of the Atlantic.

After the show we were joined by Bean and the principal cast members Jodie Prenger, Gemma Whelan, Owain Arthur and Martin
Barrass
for a lively Q&A, which you can listen to below…

The play, adapted from Goldoni’s A Servant of Two Masters, sees Francis Henshall become minder to the notorious London gangster Roscoe
Crabbe.

Owain
Arthur, Martin Barrass, Richard Bean, Gemma Whelan & Jodie
Prenger

But Roscoe is really Rachel, posing as her own dead twin brother
– who’s been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers. Francis spots
the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a job with one Stanley
Stubbers – but to prevent discovery, he must keep his two guvnors apart.
How hard could it be?!

Owain Arthur plays Henshall – the role created by Whatsonstage.com and Tony Award-winner James Corden – and is joined in the cast by Jodie Prenger, Hannah Spearritt, Gemma Whelan, Martin
Barrass
, David Benson, Nigel Betts, Derek Elroy, Gerard Horan,
Daniel Ings, Matthew Woodyatt and Ben Mansfield.

To
listen to the Q&A, which was hosted by
Whatsonstage.com editor Theo Bosanquet, click
the ‘play’ button above; or to subscribe and download from iTunes, click here.
We also live-tweeted from the event last night. You can scroll through
all of our Q&A tweets in the box below.

Please note: to avoid spoilers, parts of the audio file have been edited