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09 Noël Coward Hay Fever 1992

Saturday Playhouse: Hay Fever

Sat 14th Nov 1992, 14:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM

A summer comedy

Noël Coward's Hay Fever introduces us to one family whose highly dysfunctional interplay transforms a relaxing weekend into a maddening game of one-upmanship.

The Bliss family are ultra-bohemian and have "weekends". This time they have each invited a guest without telling one another.

Result: mayhem!

With an introduction by Sheridan Morley.

Director: Leslie Lawton

Judith Bliss: Judi Dench

David Bliss: Michael Williams

Richard Greatham: Geofrey Palmer

Myra Arundel: Celia Imrie

Jackie Coryton: Patricia Brake

Sandy Tyrell: Christopher Blake

Simon Bliss: Patrick Pearson

Sorel Bliss: Alison Reid

Clara: Patricia Hayes

Written in 1924 and first produced in 1925 'Hay Fever' is a comedy of bad manners.

The play begins at the country home (near Maidenhead) of the Bliss family: Judith Bliss (a retired stage actress), her husband David (a writer of romance novels) and their two grown children Simon and Sorel.

The room is very comfortable and very untidy. And so are the Blisses for each of them has invited a guest (of the opposite sex!) for the weekend without informing the others, but no one seems to have considered what they will all eat or where they will all sleep.

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.