Let Me Hear You Whisper & The Ladies Should be in Bed

Helen, a newly engaged cleaning lady, is particularly drawn to a dolphin and is shocked when she learns that, having failed to "talk" as hoped for, it is slated for brain dissection

She makes a desperate attempt to rescue the dolphin from the scientists, incurring first their indignation and then, when the dolphin does indeed "talk" for Helen, their futile pleas that she change her mind about leaving and stay on to help them in their experiments

But the gentle Helen has had enough - both of "Custodial Engineering" and of schemes to change man's relationship to the other creatures with whom the world must be shared (F5)

Both touching and humorous, this delightful play earned wide recognition in its National Educational Television (NET) Network production

The Ladies Should be in Bed ~ Having invited some old friends for bridge, Elinore provides them with drinks while she attends to her ill and aged mother

But while she is gone their conversation reveals their real focus of interest - the mysterious man who occupies the abandoned building next door and who reputedly engages in sordid sexual doings with neighborhood young people

As the talk grows looser, hidden animosities and frustrations emerge, climaxing in a mindless, even cruel, prank, which, more than words, reveals the true natures of the "ladies." And raises disturbing questions about those among us who are so quick to pass judgment on the actions of others (F6)

A biting, funny and revealing study of a group of middle-class matrons who meet for bridge, and are quickly drawn into more dramatic, and disturbing, matters