A pair of satirical plays offering a biting and hilarious study of events in two very singular sanatoriums.
Dunelawn:
In this first play we are in an expensive retreat for the unhappily married, where the wheel-chaired director, Dr. Pepper, dispenses a definitely unique sort of marital guidance. His theory includes complete indulgence of such bad habits as smoking, drinking and sexual promiscuity - which seems to work wonders for his patients, whose wacky case histories are examined in hilarious detail.
Ravenswood:
In this second play the approach is quite the opposite. Here the saintly Dr. Toynbee injects his straight-jacketed charges with tranquillising drugs to calm such urges - but again the catalogue of aberrations revealed in his patients is subject to close, and enormously funny, scrutiny.