Lady on the Barometer

Synopsis

An unsentimental comedy, Lady on the Barometer portrays the domestic problems of a group of boarding house lodgers as seen through the eyes of a young doctor, who serves as the play’s narrator. Howarth’s characters include a honeymooning
couple, a grumbling old engineer and his unfaithful wife, and a sexually frustrated landlady. The action of the play shifts from room to room as the doctor comments on and diagnoses the health, habits, and idiosyncrasies of the tennants.