If you were craving a hit of comedy nostalgia, where would you go? Perhaps you’d start with a streaming platform or – if you find it especially hard to let go of the past – your DVD collection. But nowadays somewhere else is ready to slake that thirst for comfortingly, familiarly funny TV: your local theatre.
Later this month, era-defining sketch series The Fast Show will begin its nationwide stage tour, reuniting the original cast (Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, John Thomson, Arabella Weir) to perform favourite sketches and discuss their memories of working on the show. It joins Drop the Dead Donkey: The Reawakening!, an updated version of the satirical newsroom-set sitcom that ran during the 1990s, which has already set off on its UK tour with most of the original cast. They’ll soon be joined by John Cleese’s stage production of Fawlty Towers, which is getting a five-month stint at the Apollo theatre from May (other 1970s sitcoms recently adapted for the stage include The Good Life and Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em).
