Faulty Towers Dining Experience announces tour in Scotland

Faulty Towers The Dining Experience, the world’s longest-running immersive dining show, is going on tour across Scotland and Australia to mark its 30th anniversary worldwide.

Faulty Towers The Dining Experience has announced tours in Scotland and Australia, celebrating its 30th anniversary worldwide, 15 years in the West End, and its 4,000th performance in the West End on 22 January 2027.

The show is going its Scotland tour from April 2027, visiting Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and it will return to Australia in February for a major national tour, taking in the Sydney Opera House, Arts Centre Melbourne and the Adelaide Fringe Festival.

It was first performed in Brisbane in 1997, and has since appeared in 43 countries and welcomed millions of guests, making it the most-travelled Australian theatrical export. The show is also the longest-running Fawlty Towers production anywhere in the world.

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Anniversary tours announced

Here is the full list of tour dates in Scotland:

Palm Court Hotel, Aberdeen (14–18 April 2027)
Forgan’s, Broughty Ferry, Dundee (20–22 April 2027)
The Corinthian Club, Glasgow (23–25 April 2027)
The Scotsman Hotel, Edinburgh (27 April–2 May 2027)

Faulty Towers The Dining Experience‘s Australian tour will be visiting venues including The Terrace Hotel, Adelaide (16 February 2027), Adelaide Fringe Festival (19 February–21 March 2027), Stamford Plaza, Brisbane (22–24 April 2027) and His Majesty’s Theatre, Perth (9–13 June 2027). The tour is running until August 2027.

Three decades of mayhem

Faulty Towers The Dining Experience was created in 1997 – long before immersive theatre became a familiar fixture of the entertainment landscape.

It places its audience at the heart of the action as diners in the fictional restaurant. Roughly 70% of the show is improvised, with Basil, Sybil and Manuel serving up a 1970s-style three-course meal alongside two hours of gags and shambolic service.

The show’s producer Jared Harford said: “Thirty years is an extraordinary milestone, and what makes me proudest is the company that has grown around the show…What began as a small idea in Brisbane has grown into something none of us could have imagined – and, 43 countries later, we’re still going!”

A history built beyond the theatre

Faulty Towers the Dining Experience London © Jane Hobson

Part of the show’s longevity comes from its unusual touring model, which has taken the production into hotel dining rooms, clubs, function spaces and other non-traditional venues around the world.

Since arriving in the UK in 2008, debuting at Mansfield’s Hostess before becoming an Edinburgh Fringe fixture, the show has racked up notable moments, including sold-out early London runs in Covent Garden, 1,397 performances at Charing Cross Hotel, a pop-up restaurant on the London Underground, a sold-out night at the Royal Albert Hall, and its one millionth guest welcomed with bagpipes and Champagne at the 2019 Fringe.

Faulty Towers The Dining Experience moved to its current West End home at the President Hotel, Bloomsbury, in 2022.

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