The Happy Marriage

Set on a roof garden on a day in the summer of 1952, the play tells the story of Helen and Henry Mansell-Smith who have been happily married for 11 years - but things start to fall apart when she mistakenly thinks that he, far from being happy, is deeply and severely disturbed in his subconscious.  Acting on the advice of a crank psychiatrist she becomes convinced that the only 'treatment' for poor Henry's condition is to arrange for him to have an affair at once.  As in all true farce, he of course has arranged to do the same thing for Helen.