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Harbour Theatre Inc.

“HOW THE OTHER HALF LOVES”

7 Mar 2008 – 15 Mar 2008

8pm

Performance Dates

7 Mar 2008 – 15 Mar 2008

March 2008

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Details

Playwright
Alan Ayckbourn
Director
Pat Barton
How The Other Half Loves concerns three couples: Frank and Fiona Foster; Bob and Teresa Phillips; William and Mary Featherstone. Frank employs both Bob and William and is considering promoting the latter. Bob is having an affair with Frank’s wife Fiona and is in constant conflict with his own wife, Teresa. She feels Bob is neglecting her while she raises their baby and is suspicious of his actions and phantom phone-calls made to the house. When he returns late, she confronts him about his actions and he lies that he has been comforting work associate William, who believes his wife Mary is having an affair. Frank and Fiona’s relationship is in stark contrast to the torrid emotions of Bob and Teresa’s. They share a polite, distant and evasive relationship and when Frank asks Fiona where she has also been, she says she has been comforting Mary - who she barely knows - who apparently believes William is having an affair. Of course, William and Mary are innocent parties and neither of the adulterers realise they have both implicated the Featherstones in their alibis. Both parties swear their partners to secrecy - particularly as both couples are entertaining the Featherstones on successive nights. With the couples seeming to be on the verge of splitting up it comes to it’s hilarious conclusion with total confusion due to Franks clumsy efforts to clear the air. MATINEE: Sunday 9th March at 2.00pm

Bookings

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