How The Other Half Loves

What begins as two clandestine affairs in suburban England unravels — with devastating, delicious comic precision — into one of the most brilliantly constructed farces ever written. In How The Other Half Loves, Alan Ayckbourn's landmark 1969 play, Fiona Foster and Bob Phillips are conducting a secret affair, and each has independently recruited the unwitting Featherstones as their cover story. The result is a domestic hurricane of crossed wires, misread signals, and magnificent social embarrassment — a play that laid bare the hypocrisies of class and marriage with a wit that has never aged.

This major revival at the Old Vic stars Roger Allam and Dorothy Atkinson under the direction of Phillip Breen, and returns the play to its original In The Round configuration — the staging Ayckbourn designed the show to inhabit. With Ayckbourn widely regarded as one of the greatest comic dramatists Britain has ever produced, this is an evening of theatre that delivers laugh-out-loud entertainment alongside a devastating portrait of human nature. Book now.