Jerwood Vanbrugh, LondonA special fascination attaches to the early work of celebrated dramatists: you invariably get a first sketch of their lifelong obsessions. This youthful Noël Coward piece, written when he was 21 and now getting a rare and sprightly revival at Rada, is no exception. The clash between bourgeois stuffiness and bohemianism anticipates Hay Fever; the idea of love as an exhilarating intellec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:17PM on February 16, 2011