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‘Fawlty Towers’ Stage Play Won’t Have Racial Slurs, John Cleese Says: ‘The Literal-Minded Don’t Understand Irony’
The London West End stage adaptation of 'Fawlty Towers' will be free of racial slurs, creator John Cleese has said.
Cleese came up with the idea for the character of Basil Fawlty when he stayed at Sinclair’s Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay and became fascinated with his incredibly rude behavior. Despite a rejection letter from a BBC light entertainment comedy script editor in 1974, “Fawlty Towers” was greenlit relatively quickly, Cleese said at the media launch. Basil will be played by Adam Jackson-Smith; Sybil by Anna-Jane Casey; Manuel by Hemi Yeroham; Polly by Victoria Fox; and Major Gowen by Paul Nicholas.
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