How The Other Half Loves
by Alan Ayckbourn

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Synopsis

There are three couples in this play, the men all working for the same firm.

One of the younger men is having an affair with the wife of the oldest, and when each returns home suspiciously late one night or early one morning they invent a story about having to spend some time smoothing domestic matters in the home of the third couple.

Both living rooms are shown in the single set, and both share a common dining room which takes on a character of its own as it serves two dinners simultaneously on two different nights.

Of course, the third couple have to show up to put the fat in the fire, but that complication only adds to the fun of this famous farce.

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
Year 1982
Binding Paperback
Edition Revised ed.
Pages 160
Place London
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573111662
ISBN-10 0573111669

How The Other Half Loves is a British comedy play written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Samuel French in London (1982).

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