FAULTY TOWERS: The Dining Experience, the run-away hit show of the 2021 Galway Comedy Festival, returns to this year’s GCF in October.
Galway will once again enjoy all the “fat-wobbling, gut-busting, face-aching laughter” this show has to offer at the Galmont Hotel on Friday October 28 and Saturday 29 at 7:30pm, with an all-ages Sunday lunch on Sunday 30 at 12.30pm.
More than one million people have seen Faulty Towers The Dining Experience, the internationally acclaimed homage to the classic BBC sitcom, with 500 sold-out shows in Ireland (20 in Galway city alone ) during the last 10 years.
In this two hour show, which The Daily Telegraph called, “a rip roaringly hilarious night out", and the Sunday Express declared “the best comedy show I have ever been to”, audiences experience their favourite scenes from the sit-com, while also enjoying improv comedy at its finest, with at least 70 per cent of the show being improvised.
The fun starts as guests wait to be seated, then hurdles along in a tour de force of gags and shambolic service. Enjoy a 1970s-style three-course meal while being harangued by snobbish, manic Basil, under pressure from his domineering wife Sybil, and the hopeless, language challenged, waiting style of Manuel.
The actors playing Basil, Sybil, and Manuel are among the finest improvisors working in comedy 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 to an original episode.
Is it dinner? Is it theatre? It is both, and much more! Just don’t mention the war!
Evening shows are suitable for ages 13+ only. The Sunday lunch performance is all ages. The audience is asked to arrive 30 minutes before the show. Tickets are €59pp, and includes three course meal and the show. Sunday lunch is €54pp. Tickets are on sale via www.galwaycomedyfestival.ie
