What the critics are saying about Fawlty Towers The Play
Daily MailDaily Mail Rating: Patrick Marmion: 'Shamelessly recycled, fifty-year-old comic material it may be. But as shamelessly recycled 50-year-old comic material goes, John Cleese and Connie Booth’s stage replica of their classic TV comedy, Fawlty Towers, is still very good fun' Guardian Rating: Brian Logan: 'If the performances in this revamp of the Torquay hotel sitcom aren’t impersonations per se, they’re near as dammit. The Telegraph Rating: Dominic Cavendish: 'John Cleese has welded together three vintage episodes to form one fairly seamless, indisputably funny evening – with an elegiac edge.' The Times Rating: Clive Davis: 'Even though Cleese’s adaptation can’t quite recreate the original chemistry without the man himself and Prunella Scales behind the reception desk, I’m pleased to report that this genial condensing of three episodes delivers a hugely entertaining blast of unadorned nostalgia.' Evening Standard Rating: Nick Curtis: 'The lines, the laughs, even the accents and intonations of the greatest British sitcom ever are present and correct in this efficient and energetic stage adaptation, but it’s an oddly soulless affair.'
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John Cleese says Fawlty Towers stage show auditions were 'so awful' in playful interview after admitting he agreed to West End revival for the pay cheque
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John Cleese's Fawlty Towers play EXTENDS its run after the critically-acclaimed reboot of the classic sitcom impressed bosses with ticket sales
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John Cleese, 84, cosies up to his fourth wife Jennifer Wade, 52, on the red carpet as he brings Fawlty Towers to the West End stage
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Fawlty Towers star John Cleese issues searing takedown of modern comedy TV shows
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Fawlty Towers to hit the West End with stage show
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Jennifer Saunders shares ‘slight dread’ at Fawlty Towers reboot: ‘You can’t beat the old one’
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Fawlty Towers to be rebooted by John Cleese and his daughter
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John Cleese 'apologises' over Fawlty Towers reboot
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John Cleese hints Fawlty Towers reboot could be set in the Caribbean
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