Faulty Towers The Dining Experience

Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2010 - Faulty Towers The Dining Experience Enter the world of Fawlty Towers! Following sell-out tours of Europe where it won five-star reviews and standing ovations, Australia’s hit show returns. Featuring all the best gags and a great meal, Faulty Towers The Dining Experience is a loosely-scripted, pitch-perfect '13th episode' of the TV series, developing the characters made famous by John Cleese, Prunella Scales and Andrew Sachs. The fun starts as the audience are called to be seated in the restaurant of the Fawlty Towers hotel, and it hurtles along for the next two hours as Sybil, Basil and Manuel serve the meal... Basil is manic, Sybil domineering, and Manuel – of course – is hopelessly language-challenged. Everything that can wrong, does in some non-stop, beautifully controlled chaos. Just don’t mention the war! Faulty Towers The Dining Experience is a site-specific, 'total immersion' piece of interactive comedy theatre performed in a restaurant: the audience are the diners and the cast their warring waiters. It provides two hours of face-aching fun as well as a two- or three-course meal. Among the show’s fans: tens of thousands of members of the public, legions of press - and even the BBC, which has featured the show on national and regional radio and TV. Born in Australia in 1997, the show continues to tour Australia and Europe throughout 2010. Some praise from the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe: - “This belly achingly funny show is 100% worth every penny” (aussietheatre.com) - ‘ ***** a once in a lifetime dining experience!’ (British Theatre Guide) - ‘ ***** spot on… brilliantly played… utterly delicious entertainment’ (Edinburgh Evening News) - “ ***** the best show at the Festival… I loved Fawlty Towers, the television series, but in many ways this live production is even better… ingenious… by far the best comedy show I have ever been to” (Sunday Express) - “their characterisation is superb”(actress Katy Manning, who saw the show twice!) ****************************** Experience the Experience at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2010: The Aegean Restaurant, 19 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne VIC 3065 1-18 April 2010 16 evening performances 1-18 April (excl. 7th and 14th). 7:00-9:00pm. Pre-show drinks from 6:30pm. $75 ticket includes 3-course dinner and 2-hour show. Six lunch performances on 3, 4, 10, 11, 17 and 18 April. 1:00-3:00pm. Pre-show drinks from 12:30pm. $65 ticket includes 2-course lunch and 2-hour show. Bookings and info: - telephone 1300 308 193 - internet www.interactivetheatre.com.au (go to Public Shows and follow the link), or copy this link to go direct: http://www.interactivetheatre.com.au/Public_shows/MICF2010.htm