Wessex Actors Company

Hay Fever by Noel Coward to be produced by Wessex Actors Company at The Mowlem Theatre in June and July.

After the great success of the professional Wessex Actors Company’s (WAC’s) production of ‘Canterbury Tales’ at various Dorset venues in 2015, including Swanage’s sea-front amphitheatre, they’re pleased to announce this year’s production of Hay Fever.

Noel Coward’s Hay Fever epitomises the sophisticated wit and cynicism of the era between the two wars. It is a comedy of bad manners about a family who torment a group of unsuspecting house guests with their theatrical excesses. It is a fabulous, frothy, feverish farce with underlying themes of cruelty, jealousy and despair.

Each of the limelight-loving family members, not least Judith, the mother, has secretly invited a guest. Misjudged meetings, secret seductions and scandalous revelations are rife during an outrageous weekend.

This year’s production will be produced at The Mowlem Theatre on two Fridays as part of WAC’s Dorset tour and 'we’re delighted to be able to perform in this great traditional theatre’, says their Producer Jo Puttick.