Full casting set for 'How the Other Half Loves' at The Old Vic

Directed by Phillip Breen (Anna Karenina, Red or Dead), the cast will include Ayesha Antoine as Teresa Phillips, Laura Elsworthy as Mary Featherstone, Adam Gillen as William Featherstone and Rowan Polonski as Bob Phillips.

Summary

• Alan Ayckbourn’s 1969 comedy about feuding couples comes to The Old Vic
• Roger Allam and Dorothy Atkinson star
• They are joined by Ayesha Antoine; Laura Elsworthy; Rowan Polonski and more

Full casting has been revealed for The Old Vic production of Alan Ayckbourn’s How the Other Half Loves, which begins performances at the London venue on 29 July running through 19 September.

Directed by Phillip Breen (Anna Karenina, Red or Dead), the cast will include Ayesha Antoine as Teresa Phillips, Laura Elsworthy as Mary Featherstone, Adam Gillen as William Featherstone and Rowan Polonski as Bob Phillips. They join the previously announced Roger Allam (Endeavour, The Thick of It) as Frank Foster and Dorothy Atkinson (Ludwig, Mum) as Fiona Foster.

Breen said, "I’m so excited about a new generation of audiences experiencing Ayckbourn for the first time, with its big laughs and its deep sadnesses. Alan Ayckbourn is not only one of the English stage’s most brilliant comedians, but one of its great formal pioneers, too. How the Other Half Loves is the first time Ayckbourn plays around with theatre’s two essential building blocks, space and time — and the result is thrilling."

Ayckbourn’s comedy follows three couples caught up in a domestic farce when Fiona Foster and Bob Phillips are each accused of having an affair by their spouses, and use the innocent Featherstones as an alibi.

In Matthew Warchus’ final season as artistic director, all productions will take place in the round.

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Photo credit: Ayesha Antoine, Dorothy Atkinson, Roger Allam. (Courtesy of production)