The New Theatre is a small theatre company that for 80 years has focussed on staging left leaning political and social conscious works so its choice of Noel Coward's 'Hay Fever' for this year's season is very odd indeed.
Coward's 1920s comedies about British upper class social manners in a bygone era would seem nowadays rather old fashioned, even distasteful to some.
In 'Hay Fever' the four members of a family each invites, without the knowledge of the others, a house guest to spend the weekend. This sets up a situation of mayhem in which the guests become the innocent pawns of their mindless, self absorbed, scheming hosts.
The results are either hilarious or infuriating depending upon your point of view. The cast obviously had lots of fun and we enjoyed its silly frothiness too.
★★★
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