John Hasler joins the cast of the West End premier of Fawlty Towers at the Appollo Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue!
Fawlty Towers was origionally a British television sitcom written by John Cleese and Connie Booth and broadcast on BBC Two in 1975 and 1979. Now Fawlty Towers heads to the West End stage!
The series is set in Fawlty Towers, a fictional hotel in the English seasdie town of Devon. The plots centre on the uptight owner Basil Fawlty, his bossy wife Sybil, the sensible chambermaid Pollyand and the Spanish waiter Manuel. They show their attempts to run the hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding and eccentric guests.
Fawlty Towers has now opened to great reviews on the West End:
This ‘reworking at the Apollo theatre in London is immensely satisfying’, and is ‘a hugely entertaining black of nostalgia’ – The Times, 4 stars
‘This new staged version of the legendary sitcom is joyful theatrical time travel.’ London Theatre, 4 stars
‘It’s as if time has stood still for this fine reproduction of a vintage mid-century antique. I suggest you book an en suite.’ The Daily Mail, 4 stars
‘John Cleese sitcom revival is the funniest show in town.’ The Daily Express, 4 stars
‘If you’re not always laughing, you’re admiring the comic architecture, whose brilliance is laid even more bare onstage than onscreen.’ The Guardian, 3 stars
‘John Cleese has welded together three vintage episodes to form one fairly seamless, indisputably funny evening – with an elegiac edge.’ The Telegraph, 3 stars