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The adaptation One Man Two Guvnors became a smash hit transferring to the West End and in 2012 to Broadway. The play was a critical and financial failure. In his memoirs Goldoni describes his father as a physician and claims that he was introduced to theatre by his grandfather Carlo Alessandro Goldoni.

In 2013 the National Theatre production will tour Australia in conjunction with several major organisations including Adelaide Festival and Melbourne Theatre Company. Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (Italian pronunciation: [ˈkarlo ozˈvaldo ɡolˈdoni]; 25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice.