MORE THAN one million people have seen Faulty Towers The Dining Experience, the internationally acclaimed homage to the classic BBC sitcom - and it is coming back to the Galway Comedy Festival.
The show, a favourite of Galway audiences, which has sold out its runs at previous festival appearances here, comes to the Galmont Hotel from Wednesday October 20 to Friday 22.
In this two hour show, which The Daily Telegraph called, “a rip roaringly hilarious night out", pretty much anything can happen – because at least 70 per cenrt of the show is improvised.
The fun starts as guests wait to be seated. It then hurdles along in a tour de force of gags and shambolic service as Basil, Sybil, and Manuel serve a 1970s-style three-course meal, together with a good dollop of mayhem.
The actors playing Basil, Sybil, and Manuel are amongst the finest improvisors working in the comedy world today. They inhabit their parts, deliver the slapstick with gusto, and have mastered the character’s unique mannerisms to make audiences genuinely feel like they have been transported into an original episode.
Faulty Towers The Dining Experience is a riotous escape, with a terrific meal thrown in. It is a chance to escape the humdrum of life and enter a reality where an incompetent man thinks he is in charge while behind the scenes a quietly competent woman is running the entire show. Perhaps in some ways, it is not such an alternative reality.
The show is suitable for families (ages 11+ ) and tickets are available from galwaycomedyfestival.ie Just don’t mention the war.
