Hay Fever at the Coronado Playhouse

I discovered, back in November, that for the last 27 years, the Coronado Playhouse offered a completely free Classic Series with this season's production being Noël Coward's Hay Fever. We were joined by David, Karen, Mark, and Carol, which made the event very enjoyable.

The Coronado Playhouse (1946) is the longest continuous running community theatre in San Diego County, and, according to the LA Times, is the longest continuous running playhouse on the West Coast. The Playhouse still features cabaret-style seating, which has been its trademark throughout its colorful history.
As for the production, according to the Playhouse description is, "Blissfully bad behavior. Coronado audiences will be transported to 1920s England to meet the outrageous and opinionated Bliss family in Noël Coward’s Hay Fever. In this biting script, a quiet vacation goes awry when David and Judith Bliss’s children Simon and Sorel crash their holiday, bringing along unassuming guests. A torrid game of charades, a whirlwind engagement, and dramatic fainting all occur in a single act! The characters’ emotive personalities and curt bickering play against the atmosphere of English high society in this layered comedy. The self-absorbed Bliss family fails to recognize their own petulant behaviors as the weekend unravels."
We all agreed that this would not have been our first choice in a play (as Lori said, who went the day prior, "Happy we went but two hours of arguing was a bit much!"). None of us are fans of the farce, a comedy that seeks to entertain an audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, ridiculous, absurd, and improbable. That said, we also all agreed that the actors were earnest and the theater was delightful. We, too, were happy we went.

Lunch was a return to Feast & Fareway at the Coronado Golf Course.

"My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough." -Noël Coward

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