“Garden is the lighter of the two plays, and director Melissa Hill Grande has found a more consistent comedic tone; the staging is cleaner and more believable, and the timing of the comic dialogue more frequently hits its mark. Garden is by far the more successful in terms of delivering on laughs, but it also feels looser in structure, as if Ayckbourn had to fill space while waiting for one of the characters from the other play to be free to enter the scene.”