“How the Other Half Loves” by Alan Ayckbourn will open February 20, 2009 at The Blue Slipper Theatre and continue through March 14. Ayckbourn is the most produced and perhaps most prolific modern playwright in the world. Dee Dee Van Zyl directs this classic farcical comedy.
First staged in 1970, the story explores the colliding worlds of three couples linked by the workplace of the men. The Fosters, Frank and Fiona (played by Jason Moreland and Gillian Swanson), are the wealthy manager and his wife. Teresa and Bob Phillips (Shannon Moreland and Rick Nelson), are a more downmarket pair trying to parent for the first time. The Detweilers, William (Gary Fish) and Mary (Marjorie DeKlyn), are a clueless duo unwittingly drawn into a tangle of subterfuges when Mrs. Foster and Mr. Phillips try to cover up their fleeting dalliance. They each tell their spouses that the Detweilers are the ones with cheating issues and all comic complications ensue.
Ayckbourn offers finely honed characters, witty dialogue and sets the action in two different places at the same time and one scene occurs on two different evenings at the same time.
Playing at 8:15 PM Friday and Saturday nights, “How the Other Half Loves” will have two Sunday matinees, March 1 and March 8 at 3:15 PM. Tickets are $10, or $8 for students and seniors. Please call the Blue Slipper Theatre at 222-7720 for reservations or information. The Blue Slipper is in historic downtown Livingston at 113 E. Callender Street.
Production photo by Scott Black, © 2009, The Blue Slipper Theatre
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