How the Other Half Loves

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T0114257556 (MILLSONNING12) Producer The Mill Sonning.
1 Mar 12 to 28 Apr 12	The Mill, Sonning :: V739 listing details L0192549641
T0752284613 (NUFFIELD11) Company Southampton University Players. Director Bridget Wilkinson.
1 Mar 11 to 5 Mar 11	Nuffield Theatre, Southampton :: V776 listing details L759237474
T041774677 (HARROGATE09) Company Harrogate Dramatic Society.
9 Dec 09 to 12 Dec 09	Harrogate Theatre, Harrogate :: V942 listing details L897055890
T0411471809 (SJT09) Producer Stephen Joseph Theatre Company. Director Alan Ayckbourn. Design Jan Bee Brown. Performer Robert Austin. Performer Theo Cross. Performer Marilyn Cutts. Performer Rosie Jenkins. Performer Anna Lowe. Performer Ian McLarnon.
28 Sep 09 to 3 Oct 09	The Old Laundry Theatre, Bowness-on-Windermere :: V191 listing details L01599686071
2 Sep 09 to 19 Sep 09	New Victoria Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme :: V119 listing details L01044928754
4 Jun 09 to 29 Aug 09	Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough :: V949 listing details L0826080765
T0607908104 (QUEENSHORN09) Company Cut to the Chase. Director Matt Devitt. Design Norman Coates. Lighting Andy Lewis. Performer Lindsay Ashworth (Mary). Performer Kim Ismay (Fiona). Performer Simon Jessop (William). Performer Sam Kordbacheh (Bob). Performer Stuart Organ (Frank). Performer Lucy Thackeray (Teresa).
30 Jan 09 to 21 Feb 09	Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch :: V41 listing details L2065925171
T0827858894 (HALLTRBATH07) Company Peter Hall Company. Director Alan Strachan. Design Paul Farnsworth. Performer Nicholas le Prevost. Performer Marsha Fitzalan. Performer Richard Stacey. Performer Paul Kemp. Performer Amanda Royle. Performer Claudia Elmhirst.
8 Oct 07 to 13 Oct 07	Theatre Royal, Windsor :: V742 listing details L1931491327
1 Oct 07 to 6 Oct 07	Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford :: V702 listing details L01078890763
24 Sep 07 to 29 Sep 07	King's Theatre, Edinburgh :: V601 listing details L1337368840
17 Sep 07 to 22 Sep 07	Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold :: V810 listing details L2056857984
10 Sep 07 to 15 Sep 07	Arts Theatre, Cambridge :: V19 listing details L02002574184
27 Aug 07 to 1 Sep 07	Malvern Theatres, Malvern :: V01718852442 listing details L1070002050
7 Aug 07 to 23 Aug 07	Theatre Royal, Bath :: V854 listing details L4360341
T077964374 (BYRE07) Company St Andrews Playclub.
24 May 07 to 2 Jun 07	Byre Theatre, St Andrews :: V640 listing details L0649538323
T1745711092 (OLDHAM07) Company Oldham Coliseum. Director Rob Swain. Design Daw Allsopp. Performer Nicola Bolton. Performer James Nickerson. Performer Alison Burrows. Performer Paul David Gough. Performer Neil Salvage. Performer Carol Holt.
19 Apr 07 to 12 May 07	Coliseum Theatre, Oldham :: V497 listing details L02127650145
T1060231132 (KESWICKLAKE05) Company CADS. Company A595 Theatre Company.
11 Nov 05 to 12 Nov 05	The Theatre By The Lake, Keswick :: V7 listing details L536167207
T1763997957 (NEWCASTLE05) Company Newcastle Players. Director Jim Ward.
8 Nov 05 to 12 Nov 05	Mitchell Memorial Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent :: V999 listing details L01500748908
T1681510684 (POTTER04) Company Potters Bar Theatre Company.
26 Feb 04 to 28 Feb 04	Wyllyotts Centre, Potters Bar :: V48 listing details L01321195161
T0940332865 (NEWPALM04) Producer Newpalm Productions.
23 Jan 04 to 31 Jan 04	Civic Theatre, Chelmsford :: V32 listing details L01858482058
T01257449069 (TRWIND03) Producer Bill Kenwright. Director Mark Piper. Design Julie Godfrey. Lighting Douglas Kuhrt. Performer John Challis (Frank Foster). Performer Sue Holderness (Fiona Foster). Performer Lavinia Bertram (Mary Featherstone). Performer Gary Turner (Bob Phillips). Performer Carli Norris (Terry Phillips). Performer Richard Kane (William Featherstone).
8 Sep 03 to 13 Sep 03	Theatre Royal, Windsor :: V742 listing details L928051764
1 Sep 03 to 6 Sep 03	Grand Theatre and Opera House, Leeds :: V975 listing details L01531990877
25 Aug 03 to 30 Aug 03	Grand Opera House, Belfast :: V548 listing details L01652854099
18 Aug 03 to 23 Aug 03	Malvern Theatres, Malvern :: V01718852442 listing details L0766725081
11 Aug 03 to 16 Aug 03	Ipswich Regent, Ipswich :: V79 listing details L90283921
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28 Jul 03 to 2 Aug 03	Palace Theatre, Southend :: V43 listing details L717208117
21 Jul 03 to 26 Jul 03	Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent :: V124 listing details L29712327
14 Jul 03 to 19 Jul 03	Royal & Derngate, Northampton :: V449 listing details L0543640977
7 Jul 03 to 12 Jul 03	New Victoria Theatre, Woking :: V709 listing details L1729046169
30 Jun 03 to 5 Jul 03	King's Theatre, Glasgow :: V613 listing details L101948096
23 Jun 03 to 28 Jun 03	Richmond Theatre, Outer London :: V327 listing details L0494080844
16 Jun 03 to 21 Jun 03	Theatre Royal, Norwich :: V72 listing details L1118479757
2 Jun 03 to 7 Jun 03	Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne :: V570 listing details L01884065485
26 May 03 to 31 May 03	Churchill Theatre, Bromley :: V302 listing details L2121205949
7 May 03 to 24 May 03	Theatre Royal, Windsor :: V742 listing details L549977370
T01568480248 (CREACT02) Company Creaction Theatre Company.
2 Oct 02 to 5 Oct 02	Electric Theatre, Guildford :: V01732805351 listing details L1511352195
T1514339840 (LANC02) Company Lancaster Footlights.
10 Sep 02	Grand Theatre, Lancaster :: V521 listing details L301816923
T0348514530 (TORCH02) Company Torch Theatre Company. Company Welsh College of Music and Drama. Director Peter Doran.
31 May 02 to 1 Jun 02	Torch Theatre, Milford Haven :: V820 listing details L331348657
22 May 02 to 25 May 02	Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff :: V827 listing details L768002281
T825009202 (TENTH02) Producer Alexander Holt. Producer Susan Harriet (for Tenth Planet Productions). Producer Lucien Morgan (associate producer). Director Alexander Holt. Design Sarah Taylor. Performer Russell Wootton (Frank Foster). Performer Bronwen Williams (Fiona Foster). Performer Rainer Wiseman (Bob Phillips). Performer Victoria Burnham (Teresa Phillips). Performer Adam Kelly (William Featherstone). Performer Emma Christer (Mary Featherstone).
20 Mar 02 to 20 Apr 02	Upstairs at the Gatehouse, Inner London :: V1170 listing details L536403093
T1878352732 (WATPAL01) Producer Palace Theatre Watford. Director Richard Beecham. Design Tim Shortall. Lighting Mark Doubleday. Performer Mike Burnside (Frank Foster). Performer Fiona Mollison (Fiona Foster). Performer William Oxborrow (William Featherstone). Performer Debra Penny (Mary Featherstone). Performer Ben Price (Bob Phillips). Performer Fenella Woolgar (Teresa Phillips).
31 Aug 01 to 22 Sep 01	Watford Palace Theatre, Watford :: V55 listing details L1096418321
T01750248055 (CHVANCE01) Producer Charles Vance.
17 Jul 01 to 21 Jul 01	Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton :: V161 listing details L0429627224
5 Jun 01 to 9 Jun 01	Lyceum Theatre, Crewe :: V470 listing details L1434130523
T2124337657 (SHIN99) Director Colin Woolford.
1 Mar 00 to 4 Mar 00	Shinfield Players Theatre and Arts Centre, Reading :: V1105 listing details L0479425320
T1955873446 (DUKES99) Director Ian Hastings. Design Terry Brown. Performer John Biggins. Performer Stirling Gallacher. Performer Adam Kay. Performer Lucy Black. Performer Paul McCrink. Performer Zoe Henry.
28 Oct 99 to 20 Nov 99	The Dukes, Lancaster :: V523 listing details L01541202782
T483577786 (OCTB99) Director Lawrence Till. Design Richard Foxton. Performer Claude Close. Performer Jean Rogers. Performer Ian Kershaw. Performer Helen Kay. Performer Peter Collins. Performer Sue Devaney.
26 Feb 99 to 20 Mar 99	Octagon Theatre, Bolton :: V480 listing details L226392117
T1095535454 (YA98) Company Yvonne Arnauld. Performer Anton Rodgers. Performer Angela Thorne. Director alan Strachan. Design Julian Saxton. Lighting Leonard Tucker.
30 Nov 98 to 5 Dec 98	Malvern Theatres, Malvern :: V01718852442 listing details L1658797612
16 Nov 98 to 28 Nov 98	Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford :: V702 listing details L2086997479
2 Nov 98 to 7 Nov 98	The Hawth, Crawley :: V720 listing details L01725826151
28 Sep 98 to 3 Oct 98	Richmond Theatre, Outer London :: V327 listing details L01411905089
16 Sep 98 to 26 Sep 98	The Playhouse, Oxford :: V803 listing details L080259550
T0186194089 (HTOHL98) Performer Sabina Franklyn.
28 Jul 98 to 1 Aug 98	Grand Theatre, Swansea :: V831 listing details L02120079004
T848287105 (INGOLD98) Company Ingoldsby Club.
26 Feb 98 to 27 Feb 98	Rudolf Steiner House, Inner London :: V223 listing details L0394294716
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18 Jul 06 to 22 Jul 06	Fairfield Hall, Outer London :: V295 listing details L333620639
9 Nov 05 to 12 Nov 05	Octagon Theatre, Yeovil :: V919 listing details L01182866316
29 May 97 to 31 May 97	Charles Cryer Studio Theatre, Outer London :: V293 listing details L02040476285

Details

Play :: One of Ayckbourn's early plays. How The Other Half Loves is an ingenious, funny and brilliantly crafted masterpiece, which juggles time and space to present the lives and loves, passion and panic of three married couples in a play of love and laughter, meals and mayhem. Like all of Ayckbourn s comedies it is about the precise interaction of sex and class in modern English society. Bob Phillip s liaison with his boss s wife is in danger of being discovered by their respective spouses. Each attempt to wriggle out of suspicion by projecting their own infidelity on to a third, totally innocent, uninteresting and unsuspecting couple - the Featherstones. The action takes place at two dinner parties given on different nights. The single set is almost a character in itself, so important is it to the action. It represents two living-dining rooms at once. The furniture and often the people of the two places are intermingles, most notably in the scene that closes the first act, when one hapless couple is having Thursday night dinner with another pair and Friday night dinner with the third. The ensuing action leads to a string of misunderstandings and almost farcical events with hilarious consequences in one of Alan Ayckbourn s best loved comedies. Like all first-rate comedies, the play is only funny because it tackles serious issues.

Author

Alan Ayckbourn