num_pages: 72
description: The first play, LINDA HER, is set in a summer cottage where Carol, an insomniac, lies awake pondering her dissatisfaction with her boring husband (who talks endlessly of a lost love whom he hasn't seen since kindergarten) and their bratty daughter. In fact, she is thoroughly disenchanted with the whole domestic scene—whereas her unmarried friend, Janet, couldn't think of anything nicer. So Carol does the right thing, and tiptoes off to a new life, leaving her sleeping husband and child to the ministrations of the easily persuaded Janet. (1 man, 2 women.) In the second play, THE FAIRY GARDEN, we meet another discontented wife, Dagny, who married her husband, Boris, for his money and now regrets it. She is also in love with a male stripper called The Mechanic, so she settles matters by decapitating her husband, much to the amazement of her guests, a homosexual couple named Roman and Mimi. Fortunately disaster is averted by the arrival of a genuine fairy, who reunites Boris with his hea
language: English
title: Linda Her and the Fairy Garden
titlecomplete: Linda Her and the Fairy Garden
genres: Plays
ratings_count: 9
publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.