Faulty Towers Dining Experience: classic comedy served with razor sharp timing & good food

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You won’t encounter service like it in any other restaurant - or enjoy eating out quite so much ever again.

Faulty Towers Dining Experience takes interactive theatre to a whole new level, and serves up an amazing night of comedy chaos in this meal within a show combination.


The TV show consisted of just 12 episodes first screened in 1975, but, almost 50 years on, its characters burn bright in the memory, and its classic moments are instantly recalled, and served for your culinary entertainment.


This dining experience is a fantastic celebration of John Cleese and Connie Booth’s classic sitcom -  and our enduring love for Basil, Sybil and Manuel.


The meal-and-show combination has been a hit at Edinburgh Festival Fringe for many years, and it is now on tour. The evening is like no other. Seated at your tables you are part of the show which folds around you - sometimes ON your table, possibly even under it as the trio improvise much of the night.


The more you embrace the chaos, the more painfully funny it gets - and on the night we went as a family, the diners were brilliant.


The show starts from the moment you sit down. The actors mingle with the diners and as they get you settled in, you find yourself chatting easily with Sybil, superbly played by Rebecca Norris who has all her mannerisms down to a tee.


She is also hugely engaging  as she finds out who has a birthday or special celebration, all of which are marked later in the evening.


Dave Tremaine’s Basil is simply perfect; great physical comedy and a huge presence around the dining room as he gradually loses control of Manuel who is brilliantly recreated by Simon Grujich -  it’s impossible not to warm to the waiter from Barcelona as he incurs the wrath of his boss, and carries out his orders to the letter. You’ll never be served a bread roll in quite the same way again!


The cast move into the background while you eat, but never fully disappear as they pop up to clear away plates and ‘help’ the waiting staff as they serve. The comedy is all around you all night long - they really make it look effortless.


Faulty Towers Dining Experience is unique - a must-do show which provides sheer entertainment from start to finish, and you get fed as well. What more could you ask for?


https://www.interactivetheatre.com.au/faulty-towers-the-dining-experience/

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