National Theatre Live on Screen: Hay Fever

Hay Fever, the West End revival of Noel Coward's comedy starring Christine Baranski and Richard E. Grant, is heading to the big screen.Written in the 1920s, Hay Fever follows Judith Bliss, a celebrated actress who has stepped away from the stage and badly misses the applause. At the family's country home, her husband and their grown children Simon and Sorel are too wrapped up in themselves to give her the attention she craves. So Judith invites a young admirer down for the weekend, without realising that every other member of the family has invited a guest of their own.
What follows is a comedy of very bad manners, as the visitors are dragged into parlour games, sudden romances and staged rows. Emily Burns directs, with set and costume design by Frankie Bradshaw, lighting by Oliver Fenwick and sound by Tingying Dong.