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Hay Fever de Noël Coward

Hay Fever: Modern Plays

Autor Noël Coward
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 sep 2026
Last year, Judith retired from her life-on-stage. Already, she misses the applause.

Idling away at their country home, the rest of the family - reclusive novelist husband David and failure-to-launch children Sorrel and Simon - are too self-involved to be a good audience.

So, Judith invites a young fan as her guest for the weekend. But unbeknownst to her, each of the Blisses have a guest of their own arriving at the very same time.

Completely unsuited to hosting and allergic to compromise, the house quickly erupts into a chaos of parlour games, put-downs and unrequested encores.

This edition of Noël Coward's irresistible comedy of manners was published to coincide with the Delfont Mackintosh Theatre production in September 2026, starring Christine Baranski and Richard E. Grant.
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ISBN-13: 9781350684072
ISBN-10: 1350684074
Pagini: 112
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria Modern Plays

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.