Hay Fever

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Noel Coward's wickedly sharp comedy, Hay Fever, stars Christine Baranski and Richard E. Grant.

Hay Fever is back in the West End for a strictly limited run at Wyndham's Theatre. The stars of the show are twice Tony winner Christine Baranski, who thrilled audiences in The Gilded Age and The Good Fight, and National Treasure and Academy Award nominee Richard E. Grant (Saltburn, Can You Ever Forgive Me?).

This blend of high farce and comedy of manners is set in an English country house during the 1920s, where the eccentric, self-centred Bliss family engage in typically outlandish behaviour to the distress and bafflement of their weekend guests, who eventually flee. The family is so busy arguing they don't even notice their guests have gone.

The play was first produced in London during 1925 and has seldom been off the stage ever since, attracting talent like Dame Judi Dench, Geraldine McEwan and Felicity Kendal to the lead roles. It has also been adapted time after time for radio and TV, a Coward classic that never ages. It might be more than 100 years old but it is just as outrageously funny as ever.

This time around the fun is directed by Emily Burns (Jack Absolute Flies Again), a major new revival that heralds Christine Baranski's West End debut. It also happens to be the first time the brilliant Richard E. Grant has been on stage in the capital for two decades, a treat in itself.

What happens when polite society meets the chaotically self-absorbed Bliss family? Hay Fever tickets reveal all in a revival predicted to sell like hot cakes.

Starring:

Christine Baranski, Richard E. Grant

Playing at Wyndham's Theatre

32-36 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0DA GB (venue info)

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