Suddenly the Fair Folk halted at one of the cottages, and from a neatly carpentered pen Taran heard a loud “Hwoinch!”

Each takes place in a wondrously carpentered circular space, open to the sky.

“Goodnight Nobody,” Rachel Bonds’s restless, friable, finely acted play at the McCarter Theater here sometimes manages to distrupt old tropes, mostly because it feels like two shows carpentered together, with rough joints.

For Christmas, he’d given her a table he had carpentered himself, and Karen was going to insist on returning it.

Rough stairs carpentered out of two by tens leading down into the darkness.