Felicity Kendal in the classic Noël Coward comedy Hay Fever at Theatre Royal Brighton
Making Hay
Hay Fever, Noël Coward’s hilarious comedy of bad manners, starring Felicity Kendal, Simon Shepherd and Michael Simkins, visits Theatre Royal Brighton from Monday 22 to Saturday 27 September, direct from the West End.
The Bliss family – recently retired Judith, the once glittering star of the London stage; David, an egocentric novelist and Sorel and Simon, their two Bohemian adult children – are incapable of sharing the spotlight. Unconventional, risqué, and often downright rude, they are everything a respectable English family should not be.
When each member of the family invites a guest to their rural retreat, the unassuming visitors are thrown into a living melodrama. Misjudged meetings, secret seductions and scandalous revelations proliferate during one outrageous weekend in Berkshire.
Hay Fever has been a favourite amongst theatregoers ever since it first dazzled London’s West End in 1925, when Marie Tempest starred in the premiere, directed by Noël Coward himself. In 1964, when Hay Fever was staged by the Royal National Theatre – then with Laurence Olivier at the helm and located at London’s Old Vic – it was directed by Noël Coward again, becoming the first play by a living dramatist to be staged at the National.
Do not miss this comic masterpiece with its all star cast when it visits Theatre Royal Brighton as part of a short UK tour.
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