Fawlty Towers – The Play Review - Fairy Powered Productions

Fawlty Towers – The Play Review - Fairy Powered Productions

Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue – until 13 September 2025 Reviewed by Phil Brown 4**** Fifty years on from the debut of the Fawlty Towers sitcom on TV, this brilliantly realised farce from the school of Monty Python humour about life in a seaside hotel, has lost none of its coruscating power to make you laugh.  The original show written by John Cleese and Connie Booth is famously based on the experience of the Python team staying in the Glen…

FAWLTY TOWERS THE PLAY review by thespyinthestalls at Apollo

FAWLTY TOWERS THE PLAY Apollo Theatre ★★★★ “the stage becomes a compressed farce machine – a pressure cooker of mounting chaos” Reviving a show as beloved as Fawlty Towers for the stage is a feat fraught with danger. With just 12 original episodes broadcast in the 1970s, the sitcom has long enjoyed legendary status. So, how do you take something that is perfect in its own right, wrap it in theatrical garb, and not break it in the process? The a…