Hay Fever

 

Hoping for a quiet weekend in the country with some guests, David Bliss, a novelist, and his wife, Judith, a retired actress, find quiet an impossible dream when their high-spirited children, Simon and Sorel, appear with guests of their own.

A houseful of drama waits to be ignited as misunderstandings and tempers flare. With Judith’s new flame and David’s newest literary “inspiration” keeping company as the children follow suit, the Bliss family lives up to its name as the “quiet weekend” comes to an exhausting and hilarious finale worthy of Feydeau.

 Recent Productions

West End with Lindsay Duncan
10 February - 2 June 2012
The Guardian Review: Hate is love in Noël Coward's warped comedy

West End with Angela Lansbury
10 March - 2 July, 2017
The Guardian Review: The play's the thing in a fine Noël Coward revival

 

 Reviews

“Lindsay Duncan is on splendidly imperious form… Howard Davies’s production of Hay Fever is not just painfully funny, but excruciatingly so” 
Sunday Telegraph 

“A masterly revival… this is one Fever worth catching” 
Daily Mail