Hay Fever

<p><b>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. - <i>Evening Standard</i></b> <p/>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. <p/>First produced in 1925 <i>Hay Fever</i> is a technical masterpiece seamlessly combining high farce with a comedy of manners and delivering Coward his first major commercial success. <p/>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.</p>