For Sir Alan Ayckbourn, the word "prolific" is a feeble description -- having written close to 75 plays in his career -- but no one will get a fight from me by declaring that of all his bittersweet comedies, the most hilarious is his 1970 play How the Other Half Loves, which is getting a perfect production at the Westport Country Playhouse. And the credit here goes not only to Ayckbourn, but to director John Tillinger, who maximizes every dastardly plot twist and guffaw-getting line in the script, and has been savvy enough to retain some of his previous powerhouse players from Westport's prior Ayckbourn outings.



The playwright is known for his ingenious comic set-ups, and this one's anoth[...]