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Hay Fever (2001)

Click to see a larger picture of Hay Fever Directed By
Chris Bissex

Producer
Liz Butt
Production Type
Nomads Production

Production Location
Main Theatre


Turnout: 92%

User Rating: (3/5 with 1 votes)

Description:

The image of Noel Coward, clad in his hancy dressing gown and drawing on gold-banded cigarette holder, has endured as a powerful symbol of 'England between the wars'. Whether this is an appropriate symbol is open to debate. He was seldom mentioned in the press without allusions to cocktails and decadence, but what he was doing, either consciously or not, was building the Noel Coward myth.

Coward's mask, his public profile (remembering that he had quite lowly middle-class origins) is very theatrical, and themes of play and artifice feature heavily in his plays. Role-playing, game-playing and social conventions are they key elements of confusion in his great comedy of "bad manners", Hay Fever.

It is a great play, as it typlifies all that is best in Coward's legancy to drama. His characters are a strange bunch, and are invariably difficult to pin down. As the critic John Russell Taylor has pointed out, Coward's comic creations, "do live as people, and their lives go on behind and under and around what they are saying; the text provides only the faintest guide lines to what is going on between the people on the stage."

Chris Bissex



Production Dates & Prices:
(Please note Booking Information)

 Date
Time
Members Price
Non-Members
Price
 
 Tuesday 16th October 2001
8:00pm
£TBA
£TBA
 Wednesday 17th October 2001
8:00pm
£TBA
£TBA
 Thursday 18th October 2001
8:00pm
£TBA
£TBA
 Friday 19th October 2001
8:00pm
£TBA
£TBA
 Saturday 20th October 2001
8:00pm
£TBA
£TBA


Cast: (in programme order)
Anoushka Lewis ... Sorel Bliss
Jeremy Barlow ... Simon Bliss
Brenda Brooks ... Clara
Hilary Swift ... Judith Bliss
John Norris ... David Bliss
Mat Goldhawk ... Sandy Tyrell
Elizabeth Eaton ... Myra Arundel
Paul Evans ... Richard Greatham
Lucy Barker ... Jackie Coryton

Crew: (in programme order)
Chris Bissex ... Director
Liz Butt ... Producer
Martin Lawrance ... Stage Manager
Rob Fee ... ASM
Stephen Williams ... Set Design
Stephen Williams ... Costume Design
Lisa Arnold ... Properties
Elaine Holmes ... Properties
Charles Hope ... Lighting Designer
Jane Martin ... Lighting Operator
Charles Hope ... Sound Operator
Roger Brandon-Jones ... Set Construction
Stuart Bangs ... Set Construction
Elizabeth Cross ... Prompt
Gordon Hilliker ... Poster Design
Peter Forbes ... Programme Design
Sarah Thomas ... Box Office
Clive Mott ... Front of House
Tom Thomas ... Set Construction


Act1:
Scene 1 The Hall of David Bliss's house during a June weekend in the late 20s
Act2:
Scene 1 At the house in the evening.
Act3:
Scene 1 The following morning at about 10am


Related News:
Jul 2001 Hay Fever Auditions


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