Faulty Towers The Dining Experience debuted in 1997 and first got here to the Fringe in 2008. In 2019 in Edinburgh the expertise welcomed their one millionth diner and have been hailed by the Edinburgh Evening News as “one of the most successful ever at the Edinburgh Fringe”.
Now Scottish audiences will be capable to get pleasure from Basil’s antics once more as, Artistic Director Alison Pollard-Mansergh, producer Jared Harford, and the entire workforce at Interactive Theatre International announce their first ever Scottish tour.
The critically acclaimed worldwide immersive eating phenomenon that just lately celebrated its fifteenth yr within the UK and greater than twenty 5 years worldwide, will go to Edinburgh’s Scotsman Hotel (09 – 13 Oct & 30 Oct – 03 Nov) , Palm Court Aberdeen (17 – 20 Nov) , The Vic St Andrews (22 & 23 Nov) , Forgan’s Broughty Ferry in Dundee (24 – 27 Nov) , Arta Glasgow (07 – 10 & 13 -17 Nov) and Old Course Hotel St Andrews ( 12 Nov) .
Cast for the Scottish tour consists of Jack Baldwin (Edinburgh opening, Aberdeen, St Andrews, Dundee) and Dave Tremaine (Edinburgh closing, Glasgow) as Basil, Rebecca Norris as Sybil and Simon Grujich as Manuel.
When the viewers change into diners within the ‘Faulty Towers’ restaurant, just about something can occur – as a result of 70% of the present is improvised. The enjoyable begins as visitors wait to be seated. It then hurtles alongside in a 2-hour tour de drive of gags and shambolic service as Basil, Sybil and Manuel serve you up a feast.
Expect the surprising!
Producer Jared Harford stated, “Scotland has given the world many pillars of excellence – Fringe Festivals, Golf, and of course Faulty Towers The Dining Experience. We absolutely owe our success as a show to this wonderful country, and we’re so excited to be doing our first large tour of Scotland.”
Faulty Towers The Dining Experience is a extremely interactive expertise, the place audiences get pleasure from a 3-course meal and 5-star comedy. Devised by Alison Pollard-Mansergh, Andrew Foreman and others, the present has been touring the UK and internationally since 2008, having appeared in 43 nations thus far, and using 56 actors per season. The present has toured to over 1000 venues, with roughly 400 exhibits per yr on common throughout the UK. A loving tribute to the BBC’s basic TV collection, the present has been seen by over one million individuals worldwide for the reason that very first present on the Ridges Hotel in Brisbane on 24 April 1997.
Faulty Towers the Dining Experience is now the longest working immersive manufacturing within the UK, the longest working Fawlty Towers manufacturing, and the longest working present primarily based on a TV collection, in London. It can also be the longest-running Fawlty Towers manufacturing of ANY KIND working worldwide.
Faulty Towers The Dining Experience is a loving tribute to Fawlty Towers. Faulty Towers The Dining Experience makes use of scripts and a eating expertise format devised by Imagination Workshop Pty Limited and isn’t endorsed in any method by John Cleese or Connie Booth.
For extra data on the present go to www.faultytowersscotland.com
09 – 13 Oct Scotsman Hotel Edinburgh
17 – 20 Oct Palm Court Aberdeen
22 – 23 Oct The Vic St Andrews
24 – 27 Oct Forgan’s Broughty Ferry, Dundee
30 Oct – 03 Nov Scotsman Hotel Edinburgh
07 – 10 Nov Arta Glasgow
12 Nov Old Course Hotel St Andrews
13 – 17 Nov Arta Glasgow
