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Hay Fever de Noël Coward

Hay Fever: Modern Classics

Autor Noël Coward Introducere de Michael Billington
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 2023
"This 1925 comedy of manners that's funny yet also unorthodox and unsettling... a celebration of abnormality and at the same time a disquieting study of both the pleasures and the pains of not being able to restrain oneself." - Evening Standard

When four guests, all invited by different members of the Bliss family, arrive for a weekend at their country house near Maidenhead, they're expecting a idyllic retreat. But this peaceful promise is quickly trounced when the self-absorbed eccentricities of the Blisses are trained on the guests, who leave the country mansion humiliated and embarrassed.

First produced in 1925, Hay Fever is a technical masterpiece, seamlessly combining high farce with a comedy of manners, and delivering Coward his first major commercial success.

This new edition is published in Methuen Drama's iconic Modern Classics series to coincide with the 125th anniversary of Coward's birth and features a new introduction by Michael Billington.
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ISBN-13: 9781350354111
ISBN-10: 1350354112
Pagini: 104
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

'No one in modern English comedy boasts a more seductively comic or escapist approach to life than the self-absorbed family in Noel Coward's Hay Fever... Coward celebrates the value, enchantment and absurdity of escaping from life into theatrics.'
'Coward's Hay Fever, like the allergy, is always with us.'
'Hay Fever...was written in a spirit as fresh and cutting as new-mown lawn. It's an affectionate and arch portrait of Berkshire bohemians behaving badly. Politeness and Restraint are not this play's middle names.'
'Coward's paradoxical plot hilariously exposes the guests good manners as a mask for hiprocrisy and the artifices of the family as the true expression of sincerely genuine natures.'
'This hectically Bohemian family, "artificial to the point of lunacy" in the memorable words of one of their hapless house guests, is among Noel Coward's strongest creations and has enjoyed star-studded outings since its 1925 debut.'
'This comedy of bad manners, in which a family of insufferably self-regarding bohemians treat their more conventional guests with abominable rudeness at a weekend house party'
'There is a splendid clipped precision about Coward's dialogue, and the constant realisation that the characters are actually thinking very different things from the banal platitudes they actually utter.'
'It's a beautifully constructed play'
It was 'written by the playwright over a single weekend in 1921. It proved a highly profitable weekend for Coward'
This is a play, like Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, that tranforms triviality in to comic perfection. And if Coward lacks Wilde's high epigrammatic style, his clipped, clenched language has proved more influential.
Coward, like Pinter, knew the comic value of extended pauses..Coward's 1924 comedy becomes even funnier when played, (as in Davies's fine revival), for it's emotional veracity.
This 1925 comedy of manners that's funny yet also unorthodox and unsettling..a celebration of abnormality and at the same time a disquiting study of both the pleasures and the pains of not being able to restrain oneself. The result is not so much a picture of narcissism gone wild as a slick and sometimes queasy look at a familly that can only survive if it preys upon the vulnerability of outsiders.
Coward's humour is razor sharp as ever.
Noel Coward remains effortlessly en vogue.
It is a play not only about the comical dreariness of the visitors but also the grotesque selfishness of the Bliss family..Hay Fever is acaution against bohemians and bourgeoisie becoming overly familiar with one another.
Coward, (like Ayckbourn a few decades later), understood how silence can be the most expressive way to use the English language..how epic journeys can be taken by characters without the need for a single scene change.
The cocoon of self-absorption that the family exists within is beautifully punctured (here) to expose their unfulfilled needs.
As so often with Coward , a psychlogically darker play lurks under the blase surface.