This free show features four- and five-star acts from the Edinburgh Fringe…

STARRING:

* Bob Slayer (MC) – www.bobslayer.com punk rock comedy and nominee, Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality

* Negin Farsad – www.neginfarsad.com from New York, award-winning Iranian-American satirist (Comedy Central, MTV, Nerdcore Rising) boasting two five-star Fringe shows: musical hit ‘The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Romantic Comedy’, and standup extravaganza ‘The Dirty Immigrant Collective’

* Kate Roxburgh – www.wix.com/kateroxburgh/kateroxburgh London-born astrophysicist turned LA-based actor (Tim Robbins’ Actors Gang) and comedian, now the charming winner of four-star reviews for her solo Edinburgh show ‘Moon Dog’

* Frank Sanazi – www.franksanazi.com Singer, comedian, entertainer, Ubermeister of Lounge,’Comedy gold’ – Evening Standard.

Show starts 8pm

FREE entry
Great bar
Great restaurant
FREE access to after-show nightclub, The Opal

VENUE:
R.S. Hispaniola, Victoria Embankment, London WC2N 5DJ
Click here for map

- it’s a boat that’s moored permanently on the Thames… right outside Embankment tube and next to Hungerford Bridge
- nearest tubes: Embankment, Charing Cross, Waterloo
- venue info: www.hispaniola.co.uk / 0207 839 3011
- boat open noon to midnight

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Neil Cowan at flying monkey PR – 07973 406382 / neil@flyingmonkey.net
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Fitzgeralds Woodlands House Hotel Glad everyone enjoyed Faulty Towers, It went down a treat, the actors are fantastic, they have it down to a T.

Audrey Solley McCarthy Not long home and had a great time, so funny, really put together well…and the food was great as always.

Elaine Davidson Just have to say – we went to the Faulty Towers Experience last night – I could not stop laughing so funny…..great night out. If you have them back – I will go again……..I am still laughing when I think of the evening – so funny

Christina Daly Count me in too plus many more friends… Best nite out we have had in ages… Still have pains from laughing…

Audrey Solley McCarthy Thanks for a great night @ Fitzgeralds Woodlands House Hotel  in Ireland, haven’t laughed so much in ages, amazing entertainers didn’t come out of character once, will be keeping an eye out for you when you come back in September and will round up the troops to bring with us next time round. thanks again

Fiona O’Brien-Maxwell Was at the performance in Fitzgeralds Woodlands House Hotel last night as well! Absolutely hysterical! Sore jaws still this morning! Will post a pic of hubby and Sybil dusting the chandelier soon!!! Thanks for a great night!

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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Romantic Comedy is a two person musical that tracks the notorious MIddle-East conflict back to a botched one-night stand at the Geneva Convention in 1948 between Palestine and Israel. An international conflict of epic proportion emerges but the question still remains, can Palestine and Israel just bone their way to peace?

This is the Official Trailer to the staged musical.

http://www.theisraelipalestinianconfl…

PR contact: geri@flyingmonkey.net

Written by Negin Farsad & Alex Zalben
Performed by Negin Farsad & Mike Mosallam
Music by Gaby Alter
Lyrics by Gaby Alter & Negin Farsad

Over half of the 3,200 seats available are already sold for this internationally acclaimed show from Interactive Theatre Australia, returning for a third Edinburgh Fringe. Currently touring Ireland, the show moves on after Edinburgh with performances throughout mainland Britain, ending for this year in November in London.

Explaining the appeal of Faulty Towers The Dining Experience and why so many people keep going back, artistic director Alison Pollard-Mansergh says: “In large part I think it’s because they can join in. Much of the show is improvised and all of it is interactive, so even our groupies, the people who see the show time and again, know that it’s a warm tribute to an amazing piece of TV which will be different every time. People love Fawlty Towers and audiences have a huge appetite for our Dining Experience, but even people who don’t know the original, and of all ages, love the humour.”

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06 July 2010 – Derry Journal

Michael Davoren has stepped into some big shoes, very big shoes, but when it comes to emulating one of the all time greatest comedic actors and comedic characters his task couldn’t be greater.

Australian actor, Michael Davoren, takes to the Millennium Forum stage as Basil Faulty in ‘Faulty Towers The Dining Experience’. Originally played by John Cleese, it’s a sizeable role to step into.

Described as a ‘total immersion’ piece of interactive comedy theatre, it’s performed in a restaurant: the audience are the diners and the cast their warring waiters. It provides two hours of “face-aching fun as well as a fabulous meal.

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The fun starts as the audience are called to be seated in the restaurant of the Fawlty Towers Hotel, and it hurtles along for the next two hours as Sybil, Basil and Manuel serve the meal. Basil is manic, Sybil domineering, and Manuel is hopelessly language challenged. Everything that can go wrong does.

Michael joined the cast in Feburary of last year, however the show has been running down under since 1997. In 2008 it was a hit at The Edinburgh Festival. It has since been constantly touring the UK and Ireland.

“It’s a good gig,” laughs Michael. “You miss home but where there is a ying there is yang. There aren’t too many jobs you get to be rude to people who pay money to come and see you.”

Just how much fun is it to play Basil then?

“You can pretty much say what you like so long as you’re in character. You can’t leave character. Everyone expects Basil to be rude and shouty but he is impatient and forgetful. It is those aspects of his character which create the comedy.

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Basil is one of the all time great comedy characters, so we give that our complete respect. We keep it authentic and as real to the TV show as possible. That is the philosophy of the stage show.

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So has Mr. Cleese ever dropped in for a bite to eat?

“Allegedly he knows about the show. We would love one of the original cast to come and see us,” said Michael.

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It really is a show which does exactly what it says on the tin. It makes people laugh, often for the full two hours. That is the best aspect of this gig for me, people laughing.”

Faulty Towers The Dining Experience performs at the Millennium Forum next Tuesday 13th and Wednesday, 14th July.
Tickets are now available from the Box Office. Telephone 71 264455
or visit www.millenniumforum.co.uk for bookings.
http://www.derryjournal.com/entertainment/39Faulty-Towers-The-Dining-Experience39.6401137.jp