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Alan Ayckbourn’s “How the Other Half Loves” at the Old Vic: Technically Brilliant if Rather Overlong and Old-Fashioned West End Farce

Is there a crisis in British new writing? The comparative paucity of new work in mainstream theatre is bad news for some UK playwrights, but good news for those whose back catalogues are graced with revivable gems. One such is Alan Ayckbourn, whose 90-strong oeuvre is absolutely stuffed with modern classics. So the Old Vic, already riding high due to its highly successful transfer of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, which finishes its run in the West End next month, has dipped into Ayckbourn’s box of treasures to revive How the Other Half Loves, which was first staged in 1969, and now…

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