Hay Fever, Noel Coward
Hay Fever, Noel Coward
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Hay Fever

Author: Noël Coward

Narrator: Tate Donovan, Arabella Field, Joy Gregory, Jeffrey Jones, Lynne Marta, Serena Scott Thomas, Carolyn Seymour, Eric Stoltz, Simon Templeman

Unabridged: 1 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/02/2001


Synopsis

A country house weekend goes haywire when the guests and their hosts play a game of romantic musical chairs. A most delightful madcap comedy.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Tate Donovan, Arabella Field, Joy Gregory, Jeffrey Jones, Lynne Marta, Serena Scott Thomas, Carolyn Seymour, Eric Stoltz and Simon Templeman.

About Noel Coward

Noel Coward was born in 1899 in Teddington, Middlesex. He made his name as a playwright with The Vortex (1924), in which he also appeared. His numerous other successful plays included Fallen Angels (1925), Hay Fever (1925), Private Lives (1933), Design for Living (1933), and Blithe Spirit (1941). During the war he wrote screenplays such as Brief Encounter (1944) and This Happy Breed (1942). In the fifties he started a new career as a cabaret entertainer. He published volumes of verse and a novel, Pomp and Circumstance (1960), two volumes of autobiography, and four volumes of short stories: To Step Aside (1939), Star Quality (1951), Pretty Polly Barlow (1964), and Bon Voyage (l967). Coward was knighted in 1970 and died three years later in Jamaica.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Gerry

Noël Coward himself said of 'Hay Fever', '[It] is considered by many to be my best comedy' and 'far and away one of the most difficult plays to perform that I have ever encountered. To begin with, it has no plot at all, and remarkably little action.' Perhaps he was understating it there for, while t......more

Goodreads review by Manuel

ENGLISH: One of the two Noël Coward's comedies I best like (the other one is Blythe spirit). I have watched this comedy twice in Spanish translation (under the title La encantadora familia Bliss) and three times in the original English, plus having read the Spanish translation another four times (at......more

این نمایشنامه تب یونجه ست که خیلی معروفه. نمیدونم چرا توی گودریدز اینقدر کم ریویو داشت.......more

3.5 stars. I officially listened to every Noel Coward production from LA Theatre Works! Not my favourite playwright, but decently solid overall with a couple I loved pretty well and a couple that were a bit meh for me. This was a pretty fun listen, and I enjoyed the ride. It didn't change my life or......more

Many of the same themes and circumstances of Relative Values but missing some of the charm.......more