Fringe Third for runaway international touring success

Interactive Theatre Australia presents…
FAULTY TOWERS THE DINING EXPERIENCE

International sell-out show returns for third Edinburgh Fringe

Enter the world of Faulty Towers...
The show that sold out in Edinburgh in 2008 and 2009 returns this year following a mad two years of international touring. Faulty Towers The Dining Experience is a fast-moving interactive show where “pitch perfect” impersonators of Sybil, Basil and Manuel fight it out once again. Just don’t mention the war!

- “ ***** the best show at the Festival… ingenious... by far, the best comedy show I have ever been to” (arts editor, Sunday Express)
- “This belly achingly funny show is 100% worth every penny” (editor, aussietheatre.com)
- " ***** a once in a lifetime dining experience!" (British Theatre Guide)
- " ***** spot on… brilliantly played… utterly delicious entertainment" (Edinburgh Evening News)

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AT EDINBURGH FRINGE 2010:
5-31 August (not Fridays or Saturdays) – 19 dinner performances – 8.30pm - £39
6-31 August (not Saturdays) – 22 lunch performances – 2.00pm - £34
B’Est Restaurant, 16 Drummond Street, EH8 9TX
Bookings: (+44) 0131 556 4448 / www.interactivetheatre.com.au / 0131 226 0000
Ticket includes 3-course meal and 2-hour interactive show.
Reservations required: check website and box office for available dates.

Note:
After Edinburgh, the show resumes its current six-month tour of the UK until a grand finale in London in November.
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Featuring new material, all the best gags and a three-course meal, Faulty Towers The Dining Experience is a loosely-scripted '13th episode' of the TV series. The fun starts as the audience are called to be seated in the restaurant of the Faulty Towers hotel, and it hurtles along as Sybil, Basil and Manuel serve the meal... Basil is manic, Sybil domineering, and Manuel – of course – is hopelessly language-challenged. Everything that can go wrong, does. It’s beautifully orchestrated chaos bundled into two hours of “fat-wobbling, gut-busting, face-aching laughter” (groggy squirrel).

This is site-specific, 'total immersion' interactive comedy theatre performed in a restaurant: the audience are the diners and the cast their warring waiters. A hit in its native Australia since 1997, the show debuted this side of the world at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe; its success there has brought it continuous sell-out touring in Europe ever since. The show picks up its UK tour after Edinburgh and at the same time continues to tour Australia.

Faulty Towers The Dining Experience is, quite literally, unique – and a laugh-out-loud phenomenon. It is performed by the internationally acclaimed team of:
Karen Hamilton as Sybil
Michael Davoren as Basil
Daley Donnelly as Manuel
(see Cast notes – follow link below)

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FAULTY TOWERS THE DINING EXPERIENCE
"They should have their own TV show!" (an audience member in The Netherlands, April 2010)

Netherlands tour January-April 2010
Adelaide Fringe 5-19 March 2010
Melbourne International Comedy Festival 1-18 April 2010
Australia tour throughout 2010
UK and Ireland tour inc. Edinburgh Festival and London June-November 2010