Hay Fever
"Hay Fever" by Noel Coward
February 8 -9, 2008 - 7:30 p.m.
Parker Auditorium
A classic British comedy of manners directed by senior theatre major J. Allen Miller. Playwright Noel Coward is synonymous with the sophisticated wit of the Roaring Twenties. Hay Fever , written in 1925, introduces us to a family whose theatrical excesses torment a group of unsuspecting visitors to hilarious ends.
Judith, a recently retired stage actress, David, her self-absorbed novelist husband, and their two equally unconventional children, live in a world where reality slides easily into fiction. Their unfortunate weekend guests — a proper diplomat, a shy flapper, an athletic boxer and a fashionable sophisticate — are repeatedly thrown into comic chaos.
Noel Coward (1899-1973): His name is synonymous with British comedy of wit and social manners of the 1920's, 30's, and 40's. As well as fifty-plus published plays and many albums' worth of original songs, Coward also wrote comic revues, poetry, several volumes of short stories, a novel, and a three-volume autobiography. He wrote screenplays and starred in a number of American TV specials in the late 50's.
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