Dec 20, 2009
The Oxford Dictionary of Plays | Hay Fever
Hay Fever
Author: Noël Coward
First Performance: 1925, London
Published: 1925
Genre: Com. in 3 acts
Setting: The Blisses' home on the Thames, 1920s
Cast: 4m, 5f
David Bliss, a writer of best-selling romantic novels, lives in an elegant country house in Cookham with his ex-actress wife Judith, his 19-year-old daughter Sorel, and his artist son David. Unknown to the others, each has invited a guest to the house for the weekend. The guests duly arrive to find themselves initially ignored then treated with scant attention. David is busy finishing his latest novel, Judith is preoccupied with thoughts of making a comeback in her great success Love's Whirlwind, and Clara the housekeeper grumbles about the extra work the arrival of the guests has occasioned. Sorel has invited Richard Greatham, a rather stiff...
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