"Winsome" isn't a word you hear very often these days. The taint of coy, simpering campery already hung about it in the 1920s when Noel Coward gave it a starring role in the after-dinner word-charades of his hit Hay Fever. Yet now (as then) it's a word that speaks to precisely the brand of giddy, self-conscious charm Noel Coward's play so determinedly exerts. Howard Davies's new production splashes gaily about in the…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:10PM on February 26, 2012