Currently enjoying to sold-out homes at London’s Apollo Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue, John Cleese’s Fawlty Towers – The Play, at present pronounces a significant theatre tour for 2025 and 2026. It will go to Glasgow on the King’s Theatre from 13 – 17 January 2026.
Tickets are on sale from FawltyTowersTour.co.uk.
Based on three of the unique BBC TV episodes of the “greatest British sitcom of all time” (Radio Times), Fawlty Towers – The Play has been tailored for the stage by unique co-creator John Cleese right into a two-hour play, full with a brand new finale.
John Cleese stated: “When we came up with the idea of bringing Fawlty Towers to the stage, I never thought it would get the reception that it has. On 23 December it will be 50 years to the day since we recorded the pilot at BBC Television Centre and I’m delighted that the audiences we’ve had in the West End still think it’s as funny as ever. The announcement of the tour means many more people will now have the chance to laugh themselves helpless.”
Following a tip off that resort inspectors could also be visiting and wanting to impress, Basil makes an attempt to ingratiate himself with visitors that he suspects are there to critique the institution. The state of affairs is additional affected by a celebration of Germans, the deaf and dotty guest-from-hell, Mrs Richards, whose infuriating complaints stop him from hiding a playing win from his ever vigilant and bossy spouse, Sybil. Together they run their resort with a bit of assist from the unflappable Polly, and little or no assist in any respect from Manuel, the trainee waiter from Barcelona who’s the butt of Fawlty’s frustration.
Fawlty Towers was first broadcast on BBC Two on 19 September 1975. The iconic TV present went on to win many awards and plaudits together with two BAFTAS for Best Situation Comedy and in 2000 it was voted the most effective British programme of all time in a British Film Institute ballot. Set in a fictional resort within the seaside city of Torquay, simply 12 half hour episodes of the long-lasting comedy have been made.
The sitcom is predicated on a real-life resort proprietor, Donald Sinclair. John Cleese got here up with the concept for the character Basil Fawlty when he stayed at Sinclair’s Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay and have become fascinated together with his extremely impolite behaviour.
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