Hay Fever

All four members of the Bliss family have independently invited a guest for the weekend at their house near Maidenhead. The guests arrive only to find themselves alternately humiliated and embarrassed by their self-obsessed and self-dramatizing hosts. As Coward himself wrote, "Hay Fever is considered by many to be my best comedy." It was first produced in 1925 and hailed as a technical masterpiece. It remains a classic comedy of bad manners.

"It does not date ... it is in the highest mood of fantastic comedy, it is deliciously heartless and, therefore, deliciously alive and fresh."—The Times

"He is simply a phenomenon and one that is unlikely to occur ever again in theatre history."—Terence Rattigan

"Noël Coward is the Congreve of our time."—Arnold Bennett