Wyndham's Theatre

It's a star-studded week of reviews this week with Julian Anderson and Billy Crudup in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at Soho Place and Richard E.

Grant and Christine Baranski in Hayfever at Wyndham's Theatre.

While sitting down with us to talk all things The Story at The National are Lorraine Toussaint and Wilf Scolding.

And Liv Andrusie, starring in Martin Guerre, The Old Vic, answers our five

Thank you very much.

Cheers.

Our second review this week is Hay Fever at Wyndham's Theatre.

The great Christine Baranski, star of Mamma Mia, of course, and The Good Fight, makes her Western debut.

I'm sorry.

Next up, we arrive at Hayfever, the frequently revived comedy by Noel Coward, which has returned to London in a new production directed by Emily Burns at the Wyndham's Theatre, jointly led by Christine Baranski and Richard E. Grunt.

At least those are the faces that appear the largest on the poster.

And like I said, this has often been staged as something of a star vehicle, particularly in the leading role played by Christine Baranski.

Having already discussed how poor at small talk and essentially selfish they all are, they do not look forward to this either.

And not only have son, daughter, father, and mother all separately invited their own individual guests for the weekend, what we figure out is that the two younger characters have invited prospective suitors or flirtations at the very least, who are conspicuously older than themselves, while their parents have extended similar invitations to charming, if dim, and devoted members of the younger generation.

And with this, the writing is on the wall, the wall that happens in a set designed by Frankie Bradshaw himself, to have the same wallpaper as parts of the Wyndham's Theatre, by the way, that there is perhaps going to be a graceful changing of partners over the weekend so that everyone ends up with somebody a little more age-appropriate.

But it's delicious, Noel Coward, straddling sparkling satire and farce which has been astutely directed, In the little moments as much as in the big ones, Christine Baranski enters from the garden, trying to learn the names of different flowers, and pulls off Wellington boots to reveal healed shoes underneath.

He is.

Uh, well, last, uh, well, beginning of this year, uh, he did a play at the National Theatre with Rotheram and Pike, who gave a fantastic performance, and he was in it, and it was so good, it was so well-reviewed, it went straight into the Wyndham's Theatre-

Yes

... and it stayed its time there, knowing that it was gonna go to Broadway.

Favourite theatre and why?

The Wyndham's Theatre because it is so intimate and beautiful.

Favourite song to perform and sing us one line.

god um um maybe i like it this way um oh god uh i see his pain i hear his cry he pulls me to the edge but i don't ask him why yeah

And he sat there and he was looking at it and we said, are you enjoying it? And he said, yeah, I like it because it hasn't got the screen yet.

Would a musical be something that you do, Roland? Can you imagine yourself doing that? I played drums in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mould at the Wyndham's Theatre, the musical, in the pit.

There was a drummer, a friend of mine, who was doing it.

He was going to go on holiday for two weeks, and he said, will you debt for me? And I said, oh, I don't know.

I've just gone off it.

The West End of Wyndham's Theatre in London.

Bromley, Norwich, Wolverhampton and Leeds.

Dave Hearn is going to be playing Max.