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By Adam Bloodworth Fawlty Towers Play review and star rating: ★★★ In news no one was expecting (apart from, perhaps, financial analysts) John Cleese has rebirthed Fawlty Towers for the stage. It only took him 45 years. More recently he’s rebranded as a right-wing firebrand for GB News, criticising the state of ‘woke’ comedy, tarnishing his reputation. So this’ll be terrible, right? Actually, it’s better than you’d think. Alright, so the Fawlty Towers play cheats a bit. It’s a verbatim, line-for-line retelling of three original televised episodes, rather than anything new, and as Cleese said in…

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