<DIV><p>All four members of the Bliss family have independently invited a guest for the weekend at their house near Maidenhead. The guests arrive only to find themselves alternately humiliated and embarrassed by their self-obsessed and self-dramatizing hosts. As Coward himself wrote, "Hay Fever is considered by many to be my best comedy." It was first produced in 1925 and hailed as a technical masterpiece. It remains a classic comedy of bad manners.</p><p>"It does not date ... it is in the highest mood of fantastic comedy, it is deliciously heartless and, therefore, deliciously alive and fresh."—<I>The Times</I></p><p>"He is simply a phenomenon and one that is unlikely to occur ever again in theatre history."—Terence Rattigan</p><p>"<B>Noël Coward</B> is the Congreve of our time."—Arnold Bennett</p></DIV>