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John Cleese’s Fawlty Towers at the Apollo Theatre

John Cleese's Fawlty Towers
Where? Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho When? 4th May 2024 to 1st March 2025 7.30 PM (Tue-Sat) 2 PM matinees (Wed-Thu & Sat) Running time? 1 hour 50 mins, with interval Price? From £20 Parking: Nearby car parks Buses: 1, 14, 19, 22, 24, 29, 38, 55, 176 Bus fares Trains: The closest station is Piccadilly Circus Bakerloo Piccadilly Other nearby stations: Covent Garden, Leicester Square and Tottenham Court Road Train fares

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Check-in to Fawlty Towers - the world's most disfunctional seaside hotel!

Regularly voted the funniest British comedy of all-time, this brand-new play features scenes from three episodes of the original TV show - Hotel Inspectors, The Germans and Communication Problems - adapted for the stage by John Cleese himself.

The cast from John Cleese's Fawlty TowersPhoto: nimaxtheatres.com
The cast from John Cleese's Fawlty Towers

Fifty years on from the last time we saw his chaotic comedy on screen, the hot-headed hotelier Basil is still trying to raise the tone of his dilapidated 1970s establishment, but all he gets are complaints and complications from his ungrateful guests and his idiotic Spanish waiter, Manuel.

Basil just blunders on through it all, determined to cater to the guests he thinks he deserves, and berating and engaging in furious tirades with those poor souls who are actually staying in his hotel.

Will his long-suffering wife Sybil and his knowing assistant Polly be able to reign him in before he sends everyone packing?

What the theatre critics say...

Daily Express: ★★★★ "The funniest show in town"; The Times: ★★★★ "A hugely entertaining blast of unadorned nostalgia"; The Telegraph: "An indisputably funny evening"

Fawlty Towers Cast & Creatives

Director: Caroline Jay Ranger; Written by: John Cleese, Connie Booth; Cast: Adam Jackson-Smith, Anna-Jane Casey, Hemi Yeroham, Victoria Fox, Paul Nicholas, Rachel Izen, Steven Meo, Kate Russell-Smith, Nicola Sanderson, Greg Haiste, Danny Bayne, Neil Stewart, Dale Superville, Emma Fenney, Mia Austen, John Hasler, Ben Jacobson, Suzy Bloom

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