Mr. & Mrs. Faulty received this beautifully written letter in the post this morning at B’est Restaurant, Edinburgh from one of last week’s ‘Majors’…
Category Archives: Faulty Towers The Dining Experience
Faulty Towers does Children in Need!
We’re fundraising again for BBC Children in Need, this year aiming for a whopping £10,000. We’ve started collecting at the Edinburgh Fringe and shall continue afterwards as we tour the UK. So if you see us somewhere with the Children in Need buckets, please help us ‘show our spots and raise lots!’. Click here for more information on our earlier efforts.
Tweet of the Week
Terence Frisch as Manuel at B’est Resaurant, Edinburgh Fringe performing a very careful and graceful headbutt. Thanks to Niger Asije at The New Current (@TheNewCurrent) for capturing this!
#faultytowerslive this was just amazing https://t.co/QmIjSnxplo
— The New Current (@TheNewCurrent) August 5, 2013
If you’re at Edinburgh Fringe Festival or any shows around the world, connect with us during performances using #FaultyTowersLive!
Edinburgh Fringe 2013
This year’s first Fringe show is just a week away! It’s a good thing the Faultys left plenty of time to get there…
‘Whats Good To Do’ Review
“I can honestly say that this was the best show I have ever seen, two hours of nonstop laughing and a lovely meal.”
★★★★★
A fab 5 star review from ‘What’s Good To Do’ of the show at The Charing Cross Hotel, London!
http://www.whatsgoodtodo.com/pages/view/faulty_towers_-_the_dining_experience_review
Tweet of the Week
Err Basil, I don’t think you should point at Sybil like that, you never know what might happen!
This week’s tweet of the week from Sarah-Jane (@newbarley) who came to see the show at The Grand Theatre (@Grand_Theatre), Blackpool in the UK!
Oh dear! @thefaultytowers @Grand_Theatre pic.twitter.com/GirVZnrGZs
— SJ (@newbarley) July 10, 2013
A bit of Manuel @thefaultytowers @Grand_Theatre pic.twitter.com/R1K7SkBjhn
— SJ (@newbarley) July 10, 2013
Introducing… Andy Foreman
Not many contemporary performers can claim to have worked with Bing Crosby and Morecambe and Wise, but this is how Andy Foreman started his career. Since then, he has featured in film, TV and theatre in the UK, Canada and Australia, and he continues to work as a Clown Doctor and scriptwriter. Andy began working with Faulty Towers The Dining Experience in 1997 and has been winning five-star reviews as Manuel ever since.
We asked Andy a little bit about himself and his character:
Q1: What’s your favourite part of working with Faulty Towers The Dining Experience so far or favourite Faulty moment?
A: I love seeing people cry with laughter.
Q2: Describe yourself in 3 words?
A: Quiet.
Q3: What’s your best (or worst) corpsing story?
A: There were so many in the earlier years as we discovered what these characters could do in this setting, and how the audience would play along.
Ridiculous conversations with guests make me laugh. But I can’t repeat one, that’s why you have to be there.
Q4: What similarities and differences are there between you and the character you play?
A: We’re both emasculated but only I know what that means.
Q5: If you were an animal, what animal would you be and why?
A: Fox. I look like the underdog but I’m getting lots of chicken. (Chicken’s a metaphor for good things, not women)
Q6: Who’s your favourite other cast member to share a dressing room with and why?
A: After two months on tour together, whoever the next one is!
Q7: If your character had a dating profile, what do you think it would say?
A: If Manuel had to do it in English:
Emasculated Spanish waiter with nice ass would like to meat women.
Q8: What was your last tweet or Facebook status?
A: I just saw The Book Of Mormon and it was brilliant.
Q10: What don’t you leave home without?
A: My Tom Bihn ID bag, and a reason
Q11: Do you have any hidden talents?
A: No, they’re all on show. Except riding a unicycle.
Andy is currently performing at Charing Cross in London until the end of August. Check out our available dates if you’d like to see him!
Sketching Basil
We stumbled upon this brilliant drawing by tumblr artist ‘Ba’, and think it looks very much like one of our own Basils: Jack Baldwin! What do you think? Do you have any Faulty sketches we’d like to see?
You can see more of Ba’s quirky illustrations here: http://badziek.tumblr.com/
Sunny Southport: June Tours Photos
Here are some photos from another of our UK June tours locations: Sunny Southport, where we played three Sold Out shows at The Atkinson.
Pulling faces for the camera are: Jack Baldwin, Ed Howells and Donna Gray (who kindly shared her photos with us).
If you joined us in Southport this June send us in your photos, we’d love to see them!
Email: emma@faultytowers-uk.com
tweet: @thefaultytowers
Upcoming UK Shows: July
Wondering where we will be in the UK this July? Our interactive map will show you if The Faultys are coming to an area near you! Just hover your mouse over the map and click on the dots for more info and links to book tickets.
(If you can’t see the dots then click on the post title before hovering over the map)
A Bouffantastic Day Out
If you are a fan of us on Facebook you may have already seen our Out and About in London Town photos, where the Faulty’s have been meeting all kinds of lovely Londoners around Covent Garden and Trafalgar Square.
Sybils favourite part of one of the outings last week was going to the hairdressers – naturally she had to call Audrey straight after and tell her all about it! Here are some snaps of the day.
Did you bump into the Faultys on one of their excursions? Tell us all about it on our Facebook and Twitter!
Beautiful Belper: June tours photos
Last Friday (14th June), one of our UK touring teams visited The Lion Pub With Rooms in Belper and enjoyed a fantastic performance with Donna Gray performing as Sybil, Jack Baldwin as Basil and Ed Howells as Manuel. The cast also got to explore the town and took some lovely snaps in the sun for us!
Welcome to Belper, Faultys!
Jack and Ed contemplating the view!
Stunning countryside
Donna looking very glamorous in her shades.
Squinting in the sunlight.
Photos courtesy of Donna Gray
Were you at the show in beautiful Belper? We’d love to see your photos and comments on our Facebook and Twitter!
Hopefully the sun keeps shining for the Faultys this summer! …Stay tuned for more UK touring photos.
Sydney Opera House Debut!
If you follow us on Facebook and Twitter, you’ll have probably already heard that September sees our debut at the world’s most iconic arts centre, Sydney Opera House. The week’s run comes at the end of a three-month, five-state tour of Australia (details will be in our next monthly newsletter) itself part of a magical world tour that takes in 20 countries this year alone.
Share this exciting milestone with us and book your tickets via Sydney Opera House before they sell out:
Box Office: (+61) 2 9250 7777
email: bookings@sydneyoperahouse.com
website: www.sydneyoperahouse.com
Image used with permission from Sydney Opera House Trust
