Hay Fever

Hay Fever
Comedy
Director: Ingomar Vihmar
Author: Noël Coward
Translator: Anu Lamp
Set designers: Andrus Jõhvik, Ingomar Vihmar
Musical design: Ingomar Vihmar
Lighting design: Karmen Tellisaar
Vocal coach: Elo Kesküla
Dance teacher: Ingrid Jasmin
Cast: Kleer Maibaum, Meelis Rämmeld, Fatme Helge Leevald, Karl-Andreas Kalmet, Carita Vaikjärv, Andres Raag (guest), Astra Irene Susi, Ott Raidmets (guest), Kadri Rämmeld

On yet another rainy summer’s Midsummer Eve, in a beautiful, bohemian country house, it becomes clear that all the charmingly eccentric (and probably completely mad) members of the family living there—the former actress mother, the almost-successful-writer father, the son with artistic ambitions and the poetry-inclined daughter—have, without warning one another, invited a guest for Midsummer who will need to be put up in their best guest room. When the respectable guests arrive, instead of the anticipated romantic and peaceful weekend, a tangle of relationship and social games begins, full of surprises and highly comic situations. At times, even those caught up in it find it impossible to work out who is where, with whom, and why.

The English writer, composer, actor and singer Noël Coward (1899–1973) made his mark on theatrical history with his distinctive style, witty asides and the subtle cynicism of his characters—in other words, everything British audiences want to see in the theatre. At Endla, director Ingomar Vihmar takes one of Coward’s best-loved and most frequently staged comedies and adds a couple of distinctly Estonian twists to its typically English, reserved humour.