Noel Coward, LondonHoward Davies has a gift for revitalising Coward's comedies. Having put the sexuality back into Private Lives, he now visually redefines Hay Fever and pulls off the daring feat of suggesting that beneath the play's mockery of florid theatricality lies a vein of genuine emotion. It helps that he has a cast that could, as Coward said of his own 1964 revival, play the Albanian telephone directory.The …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PM on February 26, 2012