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How the Other Half LovesOne 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. Studio
| | Dates: | Wednesday 9th December 2009 to Saturday 12th December 2009 | | Time(s) | 19:45. Dec 12 Mat 14:00 | | Author(s) | Alan Ayckbourn | | Showing at |  Harrogate Theatre & Studio
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