First produced in 1925, Hay Fever is technically a masterpiece. A comedy of bad manners which starts with the arrival of four guests, invited independently by different members of the Bliss family for a weekend at their country house near Maidenhead. The promise of an idyllic and peaceful weekend is quickly trounced by the self-absorbed eccentricities of the family who leave the guests to slink away humiliated, embarrassed and abandoned.»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
Noel Coward/Archie Campbell
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Contributors
Author: Noel Coward
Producer: Guy Vaesen
Sorel Bliss: Karin Fernald
Simon Bliss: Geoffrey Beevers
Clara: Betty Baskcomb
Judith Bliss: Peggy Ashcroft
David Bliss: Tony Britton
Sandy Tyrell: David Timson
Mvra Arundel: Millicent Martin
Richard Greatham: Maurice Denham
Jackie Coryton: Julia Foster
BBC R4 Saturday Night Theatre 18 Dec 1971
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