[In "Lunch Hour"] the playwright has slightly but crucially misjudged the time and the place and the people that her comedy purports to be concerned with. The slighter the content of a comedy—and the content of "Lunch Hour" is very slight indeed—the stronger and more accurate its particularities must be….

Adultery is evidently a topic no more sympathetic to Mrs. Kerr than it would be to the Bobbsey Twins, and she approaches it in a fashion so gingerly that we find it hard to believe that Nora and Peter have ever been to bed together; our incredulity is heightened when, in order to teach their errant spouses a lesson, Oliver and Carrie undertake a mock affair, in the course of which they explore the outer precincts of sex and learn something of value about themselves. Those moments of learning have a certain touchingness, but the fact...