What you need to know
Running Time
TBCContent Guidance
Suitable for ages 12+
Tickets
Previews and Off-Peak £14.50–£71.50, Peak £16.50–£76.50. Premium and Charitable tickets available.
Read about our Season In The Round to find out more about the seating configuration for this production.
Preview
29 Jul–10 Aug 2026Access Performances
Audio Described:
Saturday 12 September, 2.30pm (Touch Tour 12noon)
Monday 14 September, 7.30pm (Touch Tour 5.30pm)
British Sign Language (BSL) Interpreted:
Wednesday 09 September, 7.30pm
Saturday 12 September, 2.30pm
Captioned:
Friday 11 September, 7.30pm
Saturday 12 September, 2.30pm
Relaxed (also Audio Described, BSL Interpreted and Captioned):
Saturday 12 September, 2.30pm (Touch Tour 12noon)
£23.50–£26.50 Access rate available for all performances and one carer/companion ticket per booking available at the same price. Join the free Access Membership and book online or call 0344 871 7628
Dates
29 Jul–19 Sep 2026About the show
‘I haven’t got any problems.’
‘Never mind, we’ll soon invent some.’
Three couples, two homes, one laugh-out-loud domestic farce.
When Fiona Foster and Bob Phillips are each accused of having an affair by their spouses, they use the innocent and unsuspecting Featherstones as an alibi, dragging them into a web of chaos and confusion. As the lives of the three couples intertwine, the lies deepen and mayhem ensues in one of theatre’s most entertaining comedies.
The play that cemented Alan Ayckbourn as one of Britain’s greatest modern playwrights, How the Other Half Loves is a raucous take on sex, class and marital misunderstanding.
This production, starring Roger Allam and Dorothy Atkinson and directed by Phillip Breen, returns Ayckbourn’s classic to the In The Round staging it was written for.
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OFF-PEAK PERFORMANCES
Preview performances: Wed 29 Jul–Mon 10 Aug 2026
Off-Peak performances: Mon–Wed performances 12 Aug–16 Sep 2026
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Roger Allam
Roger Allam
Theatre includes: Aladdin (The Old Vic); Les Misérables, Arcadia, La Cage aux Folles (West End); A Number (The Bridge); Rutherford and Son, Afterlife, Albert Speer (National Theatre); Limehouse, Privates on Parade — Olivier Award for Best Actor (Donmar); The Tempest, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 — Olivier Award for Best Actor (Shakespeare’s Globe); Macbeth (RSC). Television includes: The Thick of It, Berlin Noir, Secret Service, The Sandman, Endeavour, Parade’s End, Game of Thrones. Film includes: Frank and Percy, V for Vendetta, Speed Racer, Tamara Drewe, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, The Book Thief, Tetris, Steve.
Dorothy Atkinson
Dorothy Atkinson
Theatre includes: Till the Stars Come Down, Epitaph for George Dillon (West End); Brief Encounter (West End/Broadway); Just Between Ourselves (Royal & Derngate, Northampton); A Matter of Life and Death, Two Weeks with the Queen (National Theatre); Beauty and the Beast (RSC). Television includes: Ludwig, Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials, Inside No. 9, Joan, The Long Shadow, The Gold, Stonehouse, Without Sin, Magpie Murders, All Creatures Great and Small, Pistol, Pennyworth, Mum, Harlots, Strike, Maigret, That Day We Sang, Call the Midwife, Midsomer Murders, Housewife, 49. Film includes: Saltburn, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, Peterloo, Mr. Turner, Chatroom, Topsy-Turvy.
Ayesha Antoine
Ayesha Antoine
Theatre includes: Dirty Great Love Story, Red Velvet (West End); Eureka Day (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Between Riverside and Crazy (Hampstead); Out West: Go, Girl (Lyric Hammersmith); [BLANK] (Donmar); White Teeth, A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes, The House that Will Not Stand (Kiln); Napoleon Disrobed (UK tour); Hamlet (RADA); Life of Galileo, trade (Young Vic); The Suicide (National Theatre); My Wonderful Day (SJT, Scarborough/59e59 Theaters, New York/UK tour). Television includes: Bergerac, Queenie, Grace, Endeavour, In the Long Run, Cursed, Malory Towers, The Long Song, Chewing Gum, Skins, Holby City, Doctor Who, Grange Hill. Film includes: Girl, Win, Cycles.
Laura Elsworthy
Laura Elsworthy
Theatre includes: Road, The Skriker, The Accrington Pals (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Reykjavik (Hampstead); Corrina, Corrina (Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse); The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, Miss Littlewood, The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich, The Hypocrite (RSC); Villette (Leeds Playhouse); Our Town (Almeida); Macbeth (Park Avenue Armory, New York); Mary and the Hyenas, Romeo and Juliet, The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca, The Kitchen Sink, Spacewang (Hull Truck). Television includes: Vera, The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca, Plebs, Fresh Meat. Film includes: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, Testament of Youth, Cinderella.
Adam Gillen
Adam Gillen
Theatre includes: Cabaret, Killer Joe (West End); I, Joan, Henry VIII, Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe); Radio (Arcola); Amadeus, The Five Wives of Maurice Pinder (National Theatre); Wendy & Peter Pan (RSC); Lee Harvey Oswald (Finborough); The School for Scandal (Barbican); For King and Country (UK tour); A Taste of Honey (Royal Exchange, Manchester); The Good Soul of Szechuan (Young Vic). Television includes: Criminal Record, Boat Story, The Rubbish World of Dave Spud, Benidorm, Miss Wright, Prisoners’ Wives, Fresh Meat, This Is Jinsy, The Gemma Factor, The Sarah Jane Adventures. Film includes: Vita & Virginia, We Are the Freaks.
Francesca Isherwood
Francesca Isherwood
Theatre includes: The Lesson (Theatre503); Humane (Pleasance); right left with heels (The Cockpit); Sweatbox (Royal Court); Next Time (Pleasance, Edinburgh). Television includes: Roman Mysteries, The New Worst Witch, The Catherine Tate Show, Casualty.
Rowan Polonski
Rowan Polonski
Theatre includes: Another Country (West End); Victoria: A Queen Unbound (The Watermill Theatre, Newbury); Canned Goods (Southwark Playhouse); It’s Gonna Be Me (Old Red Lion Theatre); Double Feature (Hampstead); The Comedy of Errors, The Hypocrite (RSC); The Omission of the Family Coleman, Shakespeare in Love (Theatre Royal Bath). Television includes: Black Doves, The Gentleman, The Witcher, Father Brown, Doctors, Good Omens, Doctor Who. Film includes: Kingsman: The Secret Service, Tomb Raider, Breaking Cover, Græy Compound, Triumph of the Heart, Custom.
Riad Richie
Riad Richie
Theatre includes: Fanny (King’s Head Theatre); Anna Karenina (Chichester); Infamous (Jermyn Street); Of Mice and Men (Birmingham Rep/UK tour); Tartuffe (RSC/Birmingham Rep); The Marlowe Sessions (Malthouse, Canterbury); Jabala and the Jinn (Belgrade, Coventry); The Comedy of Errors, The Whip, A Museum in Baghdad, Timon of Athens, Tamburlaine (RSC); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (London tour); The Show in Which Hopefully Nothing Happens (Unicorn/Theater Artemis, Netherlands); Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Frankenstein (UK tour). Television includes: House of David, Casualty, Vikings: Valhalla. Film includes: Said in Passing, iBoy, Cinderella. Radio includes: Splinter Cell: Firewall, The Whip.
Abigail Williams
Abigail Williams
Theatre includes: Flowers for Mrs Harris (Riverside Studios); Next Door’s Baby (Tabard Theatre); Assassins (Pleasance); Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (Shaw Theatre); Let’s Pause There (King’s Head Theatre). Television includes: Call the Midwife, Emmerdale. Film includes: Black Mass, The Eagle’s Gift, Weekend One, Road Trip.
Jolyon Young
Jolyon Young
Theatre includes: My Master Builder (West End); Witness for the Prosecution (County Hall); The History Boys (Theatre Royal Bath); Small Island (National Theatre); Dial M for Murder, Death Toll, Don’t Dress for Dinner (UK tour). Television includes: The First Team. Film includes: You Might Get Lost. Training includes: Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
Alan Ayckbourn
Alan Ayckbourn
Theatre includes: How the Other Half Loves, Woman in Mind, Relatively Speaking, Absurd Person Singular, The Norman Conquests, Season’s Greetings, A Small Family Business, Absent Friends, A Chorus of Disapproval, Communicating Doors, Way Upstream, Family Album. Other work includes: The Crafty Art of Playmaking. Alan has received numerous honours, including multiple Honorary Doctorates and the Critics’ Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts, and has been inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. He is the first British playwright to receive both Olivier and Tony Lifetime Achievement Awards and was knighted in 1997 for services to the theatre.
Phillip Breen
Phillip Breen
Theatre includes: Party (West End/Seymour Centre, Sydney); Sex With A Stranger (West End); The Merry Wives of Windsor (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Anna Karenina (Chichester); Red or Dead (Liverpool’s Royal Court); The Comedy of Errors, The Provoked Wife, The Hypocrite, The Shoemaker’s Holiday, The Merry Wives of Windsor (RSC); York Mystery Plays (York Minster); True West (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow/Kiln); Treasure Island (Birmingham Rep); King Lear, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, A Streetcar Named Desire, Orpheus Descending, Crime and Punishment, Anna Karenina (Theatre Cocoon, Tokyo); Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Sheffield Theatres/UK tour). Other work includes: Homo Loquax (Smith Square Hall).
Rob Howell
Rob Howell
Theatre includes: Glengarry Glen Ross, Mary Page Marlowe, Eureka Day, Lungs, Present Laughter, Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax, The Caretaker, The Master Builder, Future Conditional, A Flea in Her Ear, Inherit the Wind, Faith Healer (The Old Vic); A Christmas Carol — two Tony Awards for Best Costume Design and Best Scenic Design, The Norman Conquests, Groundhog Day (The Old Vic/Broadway); The Hills of California (West End/Broadway); Matilda the Musical — Olivier Award for Best Set Design, Tony Award for Best Scenic Design (RSC/West End/Broadway/International tour); The Ferryman — two Tony Awards for Best Costume Design and Best Scenic Design (Royal Court/West End/Broadway). Film as Costume Designer includes: Matilda the Musical. Rob has also worked at other venues including the National Theatre, Almeida, Donmar, Young Vic, Bristol Old Vic, Chichester and Metropolitan Opera.
Azusa Ono
Azusa Ono
Theatre includes: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, A Mirror, Walden (West End); Deaf Republic – Japanese Association of Lighting Engineers and Designers Grand Prix, Manhunt, Expendable (Royal Court); Grenfell: in the words of the survivors (National Theatre/St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York); Watch on the Rhine, A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Donmar); Deep Azure, Cymbeline, Henry V (Shakespeare’s Globe); Macbeth (Lyric Hammersmith/UK & International tour); Much Ado About Nothing (RSC); Copyright Christmas (Barbican); The Magic Flute (Nevill Holt Festival, Market Harborough); El Cimarrón (Théâtre du Jeu de Paume, Aix-en-Provence); Magnetic Field (Megijima Island, Japan). Film includes: Can I Live?.
Dyfan Jones
Dyfan Jones
Theatre includes: Boys from the Blackstuff (West End/National Theatre/UK tour); A View from Islington North (West End); All That Fall (West End/UK tour); Shakespeare in Love (Theatre Royal Bath/UK tour); Our Town (UK tour); Romeo a Juliet (Welsh tour/Shakespeare’s Globe); Anna Karenina (Chichester); Sydney & the Old Girl (Park Theatre); The Comedy of Errors, The Provoked Wife (RSC); Close Quarters (Sheffield Theatres); Amédée, Treasure Island (Birmingham Rep); Travels with My Aunt (Citz, Glasgow); Barnbow Canaries (Leeds Playhouse); Rope, Constellations, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Insignificance, Cyrano de Bergerac (Welsh tour); Seanmhair, Play/Silence (The Other Room, Cardiff).
Ruby Gilmour
Ruby Gilmour
Theatre as Casting Director includes: The Little Mermaid, Cinderella: A Fairytale (Bristol Old Vic). Theatre as Children’s Casting Director includes: Lanny (Bristol Old Vic). Theatre as Associate Casting Director includes: Arcadia (The Old Vic/West End). Theatre as Casting Assistant includes: A Christmas Carol, Glengarry Glen Ross (The Old Vic).
Joel Trill
Joel Trill
Theatre includes: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (The Old Vic); Marie & Rosetta (West End); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Unicorn/RSC); Jaja’s African Hair Braiding (Lyric Hammersmith); The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (RSC); Liberation (Royal Exchange, Manchester). Television includes: Treasure Island, The Siege, The Gentlemen, The Crown, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, The Inheritance, Here We Go, Call the Midwife, Murder is Easy, Renegade Nell, The White Lotus, Riches, Citadel, The Confessions of Frannie Langton, Gangs of London, Mr Loverman. Film includes: Clarissa, A Real Pain, Borges and Me, Drift, My Name Is Leon, The Ancestors, Queen & Slim.
Asha Jennings-Grant
Asha Jennings-Grant
Theatre includes: Jitney (The Old Vic/Leeds Playhouse); Moulin Rouge! The Musical, MJ the Musical (West End); Till the Stars Come Down (National Theatre/West End); Small Island (Leeds Playhouse/Birmingham Rep/Nottingham Playhouse); Noughts & Crosses (UK tour); …blackbird hour (Bush/UK tour); Constellations (Theatr Clwyd, Mold); In Dreams (Leeds Playhouse); Smoke (Southwark Playhouse); The Solid Life of Sugar Water (Orange Tree); Vinegar Tom (The Maltings, St Albans); Leopards (Rose Theatre, Kingston). Television includes: The Blame, Archie, The Confessions of Frannie Langton, The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe, Sherwood, Mood, Brave New World. Film includes: This Is How It Goes.
Kev McCurdy
Kev McCurdy
Theatre includes: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (The Old Vic); Stranger Things: The First Shadow, The Play That Goes Wrong, Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, All My Sons, All About Eve, Othello (West End); Red Pitch (West End/Bush); The Hunger Games: On Stage (Troubadour Canary Wharf); Oedipus, Hamlet (Broadway); Hamlet Hail to the Thief (Aviva Studios, Manchester/RSC); Edward II (RSC); Brigadoon (Regent’s Park Open Air); Romeo & Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe); Bajazet (RBO); Semele, Don Giovanni, Káťa Kabanová (Glyndebourne). Television includes: Believe Me, The Undeclared War, Falling, Bariau. Film includes: John Carter, Season of the Witch.
Phillippe Cato
Phillippe Cato
Theatre as Director includes: Finding Olokun (Stanley Arts); Moral Animal (Orange Tree). Theatre as Associate Director includes: Noughts & Crosses (Regent’s Park Open Air); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe); A Raisin in the Sun (UK tour). Theatre as Assistant Director: A Doll’s House (Almeida); The Little Foxes (Young Vic); My Mother’s Funeral: The Show (Roundabout at Summerhall, Edinburgh/UK tour); The Big Life (Stratford East). Theatre as Piano Composer and Musical Director includes: The Little Foxes (Young Vic).
Megan Rouse
Megan Rouse
Theatre includes: The Constituent, A Christmas Carol, Groundhog Day, Eureka Day, Glengarry Glen Ross (The Old Vic); The Hills of California, Juno and the Paycock (West End). Since 2002, Megan has worked alongside Rob Howell on most of his designs and as an assistant to various other designers.
Lucy Gaiger
Lucy Gaiger
Theatre includes: Glengarry Glen Ross, Mary Page Marlowe, The Constituent, Lungs, A Christmas Carol, ‘Art’ (The Old Vic); Juno and the Paycock, The Hills of California, Much Ado About Nothing, Venus in Fur, Bombay Dreams, Into the Woods (West End); Mamma Mia! (West End/Broadway/Worldwide); The Ferryman (Royal Court/West End/Broadway); The Light in the Piazza (West End/Chicago); Arcadia, The Madness of George III, Wind in the Willows, The Caucasian Chalk Circle (National Theatre); Young Marx (The Bridge); Heartbreak House (Almeida); Nine (Donmar). Film includes: Lift, Wicked, The Madness of King George, Matilda the Musical.
Katie Saunders for Propworks
Katie Saunders for Propworks
Theatre includes: Glengarry Glen Ross, Oedipus, The 47th, A Number, Bagdad Cafe, A Very Expensive Poison, Wise Children (The Old Vic); Jesus Christ Superstar, Disney’s Hercules, The Devil Wears Prada, Sister Act, Grease, Disney’s Aladdin, Pretty Woman The Musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Oklahoma!, 2:22 A Ghost Story (West End); The Hunt, The River, The Testament of Mary (Broadway); Derren Brown: Only Human, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (UK tour); Fiddler on the Roof (Regent’s Park Open Air/UK tour); Evita (Leicester Curve); West Side Story (International tour); Cirque du Soleil ALIZÉ (Theater am Potsdamer Platz, Berlin).
Campbell Young Associates
Campbell Young Associates
Theatre includes: Glengarry Glen Ross, Oedipus, Eureka Day, Present Laughter, Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax, The Master Builder, High Society, Electra, Sweet Bird of Youth (The Old Vic); A Christmas Carol, Groundhog Day (The Old Vic/Broadway); High Noon, Paddington The Musical, Hercules, Waiting for Godot, Hello, Dolly!, 42nd Street, Crazy For You, Gypsy (West End); Stranger Things: The First Shadow, The Hills of California, Back to the Future, Leopoldstadt, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (West End/Broadway); Kinky Boots, Miss Saigon (UK tour); The Fear of 13 (Donmar); Starlight Express (Troubadour Wembley Park); Guys & Dolls (The Bridge).