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6 giorni fa · Adam Jackson-Smith has the biggest challenge of matching Cleese’s indelible performance, but he gets impressively close to the clenched-teeth asides, outlandish physical comedy (his panicked miming of a horse’s name is brilliant, his concussion scene genuinely superb), and general martyred air of a man tried beyond all endurance.
5 giorni fa · Adam Jackson-Smith as Basil Fawlty and Semi Yeroham as Manuel. (Photo: Hugo Glendinning) John Cleese has adapted three episodes of Fawlty Towers into a two hour show with one interval. The first is about Sybil (Anna-Jane Casey)’s intel from Audrey that there are hotel inspectors in town.
4 giorni fa · Uncannily like Cleese, albeit clearly shorter, Adam Jackson-Smith is virtually the only member of the cast to make any attempt at characterisation and, as a result, he lifts his portrayal of Basil above a ‘Dead Ringers’ style impression.”
5 giorni fa · Fawlty Towers, Apollo Theatre, London, until 28 September. John Cleese’s three favourite episodes are mashed together – the hotel inspectors, the deaf guest and of course the Germans and the war. Adam Jackson-Smith adds intensity and pain to the exasperated spirit of Fawlty and Anna-Jane Casey is note-perfect as Sybil.
6 giorni fa · As Basil (Adam Jackson-Smith) attempts to evade Sybil’s watchful gaze while dealing with barely concealed contempt with the hotel’s guests, we get a greatest hits parade of characters from...
5 giorni fa · Adam Jackson-Smith as Basil, Anna-Jane Casey as Sybil, Steven Meo as Mr Hutchinson Hugo Glendinning There are many definitions of bravery, and taking on the challenge of embodying John Cleese as Basil Fawlty in Cleese’s own stage adaptation of Fawlty Towers would undoubtedly be one of them.
4 giorni fa · The show stars Adam Jackson-Smith as Basil and Anna-Jane Casey as Sybil. (Image: Hugo Glendinning) The set recreates the various rooms of Fawlty Towers, from the dining room where guests are served by a grouchy Basil, to the reception where Sybil can be found talking animatedly on the phone with friends.
