Enter a world of dysfunctional marriages, and domestic drama, with an abundance of pure comedy genius as three couples, reveal their stories on the stage.
How The Other Half Loves is on at the Salisbury Playhouse and is a chaotic tale of misunderstandings that romps from one scene to the next and you wonder where and how it will end.
There is a simple, homely set which is used by all three couples simultaneously, and as the performance begins, you are immediately drawn into the plot. It is cleverly written and intricate and is as much about the actor's expressions as the words spoken.
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Set in the 1970s – a time when the men went out to work and the women were at home but not is all as it seems.
Fiona Foster (Sherry Baines) arrives home late one night which sets a whole host of suspicion and lies in motion. Fiona is intelligent, articulate, and glamorous. Her husband Frank Foster (Philip Bretherton) is forgetful and trusting, at first.
But Fiona has a secret, and it embroils the other couples into a lively game of deceit.
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Bob Phillips (Haydn Oakley) plays a love cheat but his wife, harassed mother of one, Teresa Phillips, (Joanna Van Kampen) is onto him. She is struggling to cope with her child and is fed up with Bob’s attitude and he is fed up with her.
Enter William Featherstone (Sam Alexander) who is due to start working in the same department as department manager Frank Foster and Bob Phillips who is known as the office flirt.
William is young but stuck in his ways. His wife, Mary Featherstone (Rebecca Cooper) struggles with social situations and the situation in which she finds herself leads to the domestic drama imploding.
It is a chaotic tale of misunderstandings that romps from one scene to the next until you wonder where and how it will end. It is a play that will have you laughing out loud from start to finish and all of the performances are brilliant.
The play gets 10/10 for pure entertainment value.
Written by Alan Ayckbourn and directed by Gareth Machin, it is suitable for those aged 12 years and above and is available until March 4.
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