Orcas Center Brings Back Season Favorites

"One Man, Two Guvnors" -- British farce at the Orcas Center, Friday, May 25

ENCORE Season starts with National Theatre Live and Met Live On Screen starting May 25

Orcas Center launches the 2012 Summer ENCORE Season with National Theatre Live and Met Live On Screen starting May 25.

The 2012 Summer ENCORE Season starts with a bang with the London and Broadway smash hit, One Man, Two Guvnors, by Richard Bean on Friday May 25, followed by Danny Boyle’s production of Frankenstein on Friday June 8th, and then six outstanding Met: Live ENCORES including Don Giovanni and Anna Bolena. All ENCORES are screened at Orcas Center on Friday nights at 7:30 pm.

Due to popular demand we have another chance to see the smash-hit comedy One Man, Two Guvnors. Following a sellout run at the National Theatre and in the West End and a successful opening on Broadway, National Theatre Live presents an encore of this “hilarious tour de farce” New York Post.

“…as rowdy as the 3 Stooges, as light footed as Fred Astaire…” New York Times

One Man, Two Guvnors is the winner of the Evening Standard Award and the Critics’ Circle Award. Breakout comic actor James Corden (The History Boys, BBC’s Gavin & Stacey) stars as Francis Henshall (“one man”). Always famished and easily confused, Henshall agrees to work for a local gangster as well as a criminal in hiding (“two guvnors”), both of whom are linked in a web of schemes, extortions and romantic associations… none of which Francis can keep straight. So he has to do everything in his power to keep his two guvnors from meeting, while trying to eat anything in sight along the way. Simple.

Falling trousers, flying fish heads, star-crossed lovers, cross-dressing mobsters and a fabulous on-stage band are just some of what awaits at the most “deliriously funny” (Daily Telegraph) play to cross the pond in decades. Directed by Tony® and Olivier Award winner Nicholas Hytner, Richard Bean’s side-splitting comedy arrived on Broadway this spring, and comes back to Orcas Center On Screen May 25th at 7:30 pm.

The 2012 Summer ENCORES to follow are –

• Danny Boyle’s production of Frankenstein on Friday June 8 (NT Live)
• Anna Netrebko in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena on Friday June 15 (The Met Live)
• Rossini’s Le Comte Ory with Juan Diego Rorez on Friday June 29 (The Met Live)
• Mozart’s Don Giovanni with Mariusz Kwiecienon on Friday July 6 (The Met Live)
• Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffman on Friday July 13 (The Met Live)
• Anna Netrebko in  Donizetti Lucia De Lammermoor on July 27 (The Met Live)
• Renee Fleming in Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier on August 3 (The Met Live)

What the critics say about One Man, Two Guvnors:

Above all there is James Corden, who is the very embodiment of the show’s artful anarchy. His improvisation with theatre-goers is the most delicious I’ve ever seen on Broadway.”
– Ben Brantley, The New York Times

“The National Theatre is on a roll unmatched in its nearly fifty-year history. The longest sustained laugh I’ve heard in years of theatre-going.”
– John Lahr, The New Yorker

“Can we keep JAMES CORDEN in New York for good? He is so mad, talented and hilarious you just want more of him. Corden announces himself as a blazing star. Hail to the Clown Prince of this royal scream.”
– Joe Dziemianowicz, Daily News

One Man, Two Guvnors and all ENCORE tickets are $15, $11 for students ($2 off for Orcas Center members) and may be purchased on the website or by calling 376-2281 ext 1 or visiting the Orcas Center box office during box office hours which are Thursday, Friday and Saturday from noon- 4 pm. For more information about Orcas Center 2011 season events, please visit www.orcascenter.org.