HOW THE OTHER HALF LOVES
REVIEWS
“Breen orchestrates Ayckbourn’s script with a magician’s precision…Breen and these actors are masters of their craft”
Madeleine Saidenberg
Times Literary Supplement
“Allam gives what is surely the comic performance of the year...The real rewards of Phillip Breen’s spot-on period production...are successive waves of laughter. What a joy.”
Robert Gore-Langton
Mail on Sunday
“Revived to perfection”
The Upcoming
“It’s glorious...Perfect”
Libby Purves
Theatre Cat
“Alan Ayckbourn’s ingenious farce brings the houses down…the cast of six is more than half the joy, their verbal and physical humour stopping the show as surely as big numbers in musicals”
Mark Lawson
The Guardian
“A comic masterclass”
Clive Davis
The Times
“A masterclass in comic timing…toe-curlingly enjoyable…50 years on How The Other Half Loves still resonates”
Sarah Hemming
The Financial Times
“Ultimately offers poignancy and humour”
Marianka Swain
The Daily Telegraph
“So much ingenious craftsmanship”
Alice Saville
The Independent
“Roger Allam…is in a comedy class of his own… a theatrical marvel”
Georgina Brown
Daily Mail
“Director Phillip Breen delivers a masterful interpretation…a laugh out loud multi-layered production”
Aliya Al-Hassan
What’s On Stage
“Phillip Breen’s direction ticks like clockwork, and slyly hints at their class duality…a scrupulously choreographed blur of slapstick fireworks”
Alexander Cohen
Broadway World
“It is in Phillip Breen’s direction that the true genius of this production really shines. Not just matching the standard of Ayckbourn’s writing but even elevating it”
All That Dazzles
“With choreographic precision, Phillip Breen’s ingenious direction makes the most of Ayckbourn’s witty and inventive script...Rob Howell’s inspired designs”
Phoebe Taplin
The Reviews Hub
“Inventive and extremely funny…brilliantly precise performances”
Neil Dowden
Plays International
“Utterly hilarious and shockingly painful”
Cheryl Markosky
London Theatre
“Ayckbourn’s superbly witty text becomes a cavalcade of humour”
The Quintessential Review
“Excruciating comedy”
Stuart King
London Box Office
“It is not simply a comedy, but a play filled with loneliness, disappointment, and absurdity, all deeply rooted in everyday life”
Theatre And Tonic
“Marvelling agog at the skill of the dinner scene would be enough to make this show worthwhile. The depth of the characters and genuine feeling ensure that the whole play holds one’s attention”
Red Bus Londinium
“In Breen’s production, How The Other Half Loves sings… A clever, strangely sweet infidelity farce that’s of the ‘60s, but remains timelessly funny”
Andrzej Lukowski
Time Out