When Sir Alan Ayckbourn says that "about 50% of the laughs" in his hysterically funny, heart-wrenchingly painful How the Other Half Loves are thanks to its "superimposed composite set", he's not quite 100% wrong. Most of the laughs, in fact, come from his juggler's dexterity with words and silences; status and snobbery; hope and despair. Having taken his last bow as artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre las…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:34AM on March 21, 2016