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12 February 2015 | 4:49 pm | Staff Writer

Answered by: Alison Pollard-Mansergh

Describe your show in a tweet? Basil, Sybil and Manuel serve a three-course meal in a highly improvised show that’s “brilliant” (Adelaide Now). Internationally acclaimed.

Why did you decide to do Fringe 2015? We’ve been going to Adelaide Fringe every year since 2008. It’s a great festival for us: full of bookers and promoters. It’s where we first met a very well known Dutch producer called Hans de Visser. He started touring us in Europe and Scandinavia the following year, and we now employ him as senior consulting producer: he continues to book Faulty Towers in overseas markets, and also scouts for new shows to bring into the company.

In a fantasy world who would you be the love child of and why? I have always been a fan of the old song and dance movies, and would have loved to be in them. If Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse had been my parents (perhaps an affair during the filming of Singing In The Rain), I would have been born at the right time, and they would have been able to introduce me to the right people too…

Website link for more info? interactivetheatre.com.au