Booking opens today for Hay Fever, the Noel Coward play starring Dame Judi Dench that has just confirmed its run at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.
Peter Hall’s revival of Coward’s Hay Fever will preview from 6 April, opening on 19 April, with a limited 18-week season until 5 August.
The king of social farces, Noel Coward, famously whipped up this play in a mere 72 hours. Based on the life of the eccentric American actress Laurette Taylor, the story follows flighty thespian Judith Bliss (Dench), who lives with her husband and children in an idyllic rural abode, and invites a selection of unwitting guests to join what becomes an increasingly mad house.
Dame Judi Dench was last seen on a West End stage in 2004 in the RSC’s All’s Well That Ends Well at the Gielgud. She has most recently starred on screen in Pride And Prejudice and has just been BAFTA nominated for her star turn as the feisty, stubborn widow Laura Henderson in Mrs Henderson Presents, the Stephen Frears film about London’s Windmill theatre and its penchant for nude revues.
Dench’s on-stage husband David will be played by Peter Bowles (Sleuth, Wait Until Dark on stage), while Belinda Lang, best known as the harried mum in TV series Two Point Four Children, will play Myra Arundel and Kim Medcalf (Eastenders’ Sam Mitchell) takes the role of Sorel Bliss. Other cast members include William Chubb, Charles Edwards and Dan Stevens.
Hay Fever is designed by Simon Higlett, with lighting by Paul Pyant and sound by Gregory Clarke. It is produced by Bill Kenwright and Thelma Holt.
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