Faulty Towers…the dining experience
The Lowry, Tue 13 – Sat 18 January 2009
Alison Pollard-Mansergh the Artistic Director who also plays Sybil is available for interview
This January, side-splitting entertainment has moved into The Lowry Restaurant with the Interactive Theatre of Australia’s production of Faulty Towers…the dining experience.
Enter the world of the snobbish, manic Basil, his domineering wife Sybil and their hopeless language-challenged waiter Manuel. This 2-hour interactive performance revolves around a 3-course meal, starting as guests are seated and concluding as dessert is served.
Faulty Towers the dining experience is a warm, funny, and fantastically accurate tribute to Fawlty Towers. It's set in the restaurant of the Fawlty Towers hotel and features the characters of Sybil, Basil and Manuel in a '13th episode' of the TV show. The audience are the diners, served by the Faulty Towers cast; the result is beautifully orchestrated mayhem. It's a truly feel-good piece of interactive, site-specific theatre led by internationally acclaimed actors.
The first show opened in Brisbane, Australia on 24 April 1997. Since then thousands of Australians have enjoyed the antics of Basil, Sybil and Manuel in public shows, conferences and private functions. Interactive Theatre Australia’s Artistic Director and co-founder Alison Pollard-Mansergh, who also plays Sybil, led the show's highly successful international debut at this year’s Edinburgh festival.
‘Nothing Faulty with this dinner: The only problem you might find is that you laugh so hard you end up with indigestion.’ ***** Edinburgh Evening News
Posted on Wednesday, 17 December 2008 under Press General Press Theatre Press