This is a request from DH, who knows how knowledgeable you lot are...
"I'm trying to put a name to a production I saw many years ago on TV. It was probably a production in a series like Play for Today, The Wednesday Play or possibly Armchair Theatre; it was probably aired around the mid- or late 1970s, and I think it was shown on BBC1 - but I could be mistaken about any of the above.
The plot revolved around a sequence of events involving just three people: a man, his wife and a young burglar. The burglar breaks into the house of the man and his wife in the middle of the night, but he is caught in their bedroom when the husband wakes up. For a reason that I can't remember now, the burglar is subsequently invited by the man and his wife to come and live with them in the house. The burglar has an affair with the wife, and leaves the house when they are caught by the husband.
These are the basic facts that all three of them would agree on; however the interplay between them as the above scenario is played out is ambiguous, and several scenes are shown from the point of view of each of them in turn, with all three actors playing very different interpretations of their respective characters. For example, the burglar's impression of himself is that of a loser; whereas the husband sees him as cool and sophisticated, and the wife sees him as a potential lover. The wife considers herself to be dowdy and downtrodden, whereas the burglar sees her as wildly exotic. The husband considers himself to be a miserable coward, whereas the burglar sees him as a suave and rather debonair guy who can take anything in his stride.
This is as much as I can remember about the play, if indeed that's what it was. Can anybody identify the production I'm describing please?"