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I spent a lot of time during Alan Ayckbourn's manic but sodden comedy "Garden," now playing at the Manhattan Theatre Club's Stage II, trying to think of clever ways to combine the words "farce" and "snooze," but it was no use--the only combinations I came up with were about as satisfying as the play itself. And it had all sounded like so much fun: "Garden" is linked with another Ayckbourn play, "House," which is not only set at the same time and place--a late-summer day, at an English country house where a garden fair is to be held--but is running simultaneously with "Garden," on M.T.C.'s main stage, with the same cast. (Theatregoers can see the plays, in either order, on ...