How The Other Half Loves (Old Vic, London)
Rating: Four out of five stars
Alan Ayckbourn’s ingenious 1969 comedy How The Other Half Loves is a theatrical marvel.
While much of the comic business depends on landlines, class snobbery and frustrated wives chained to the sink, this farcical but forensic dissection of three miserable marriages has a timeless capacity to amuse.
Thanks, in Philip Breen’s fluent but far from flawless revival, to Roger Allam.
Wearing a white vest tucked into patterned Y-fronts, his double-chin wobbling like blancmange, umming and erring, hopelessly and hilariously inept, he oozes pomposity as Frank while always getting the wrong end
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