Noel Coward wrote Hay Fever in 1924 and it opened at the Ambassador’s Theatre in June 1925. The play was inspired by Coward’s visit to New York, where he stayed with the flamboyant playwright, Hartley Manners, and his wife, the actress Laurette Taylor. The original production had Marie Tempest in the lead role of Judith Bliss and it transferred to the larger Criterion Theatre in September 1925. In the same year, the play opened at the Maxine Elliott Theatre in New York. Reviews of the play at the time were complimentary but not effusive in their praise. Although it is not one of Coward’s
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