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The play opens with the couple, Mr. and Mrs. Smith speaking about the events that occurred that evening. The conversation then turns to the family where everyone is named Bobby Watson and they are all commercial travelers. The maid, Mary, then enters and announces the arrival of another couple the Martins. The Smiths exit to go change and the Martins are shown to the sitting room. There, they have a conversation as if they are complete strangers until various personal details reveal that they are, in fact, married to each other. Mary then re-enters and reveals to the audience that it isn’t possible for them to be married because their children’s red and white eyes are switched around. Mr. and Mrs. Smith then reenter and the couples engage in small talk and trade stories until the Fire Chief arrives. The Fire Chief is disappointed that there is no fire to put out at the Smith’s, but remains to tell stories to the two couples. Mary then returns and reveals herself to be the lover of the Fire Chief and recites a poem, “The Fire,” in his honor. Afterwards, the Fire Chief leaves because there are fires he must put out. His parting comment about “the bald soprano” changes the atmosphere of the room and after he leaves, the couples begin arguing in a serious of non-sequiturs and truncated aphorisms. The couples become more frenzied as they are unable to communicate with each other. The action comes to a head with all four couples shouting, “It’s not that way, it’s over here!” and then the lights fall. When they come back up the Martins are in the same position the Smiths were at the beginning of the play and the action begins again with the Martins in place of the Smiths.