One Man, Two Guvnors is adapted from the eighteenth-century Italian comedy, Il Servitore di Due Padroni (Servant of Two Masters) by Carlo Goldoni. Richard Bean remained faithful to the plot of the original commedia dell’arte play, with the lead female character disguised as her dead brother. However he updated the setting to Brighton, England in the 1960s. To this end, the modern adaptation includes a skiffle band, who are playing while the audience enters, and appear occasionally throughout. One Man, Two Guvnors opened at the National Theatre, London, in 2011 with James Corden playing the
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