Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NOEL Coward's Hay Fever is a very witty, if fluffy, comedy of manners with distinct, offbeat characters. Unfortunately, the actors in the Lowell House production aren't always up to the demands of Coward's script...
Written by Noel Coward...
Director Carl B.J. Fox manages to sustain Coward's comic pace, but only during the first two acts. Still, his valiant efforts, as well as those of Simpson, Hill and Martin, keep Hay Fever's ailments from proving fatal...
...theater works on a rotational repertory basis, with each show running for six weeks. Most of the productions are American and British classics, such as Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw (currently playing) and Noel Coward's Hay Fever...
...starting next month, Rex Harrison in a revival of The Admirable Crichton. Those with a taste for undeservedly obscure classics can see two sprightly, acerbic Restoration comedies at R.S.C. headquarters in Stratford-upon-Avon, George Farquhar's The Constant Couple and William Wycherley's The Plain Dealer, plus Noel Coward's Easy Virtue, ably done in the West End. At the National, Dion Boucicault's The Shaughraun, a 19th century Irish separatist tract masquerading as a farcical melodrama, proves its author a deft orchestrator of tone and plot...