"This 1925 comedy of manners that's funny yet also unorthodox and
unsettling... a celebration of abnormality and at the same time a
disquieting study of both the pleasures and the pains of not being able
to restrain oneself." - Evening Standard
When four guests, all invited by different members of the Bliss family,
arrive for a weekend at their country house near Maidenhead, they're
expecting a idyllic retreat. But this peaceful promise is quickly
trounced when the self-absorbed eccentricities of the Blisses are
trained on the guests, who leave the country mansion humiliated and
embarrassed.
First produced in 1925, Hay Fever is a technical masterpiece,
seamlessly combining high farce with a comedy of manners, and delivering
Coward his first major commercial success.
This new edition is published in Methuen Drama's iconic Modern Classics
series to coincide with the 125th anniversary of Coward's birth and
features a new introduction by Michael Billington.