National Theatre screening of Noël Coward's comedy 'Hay Fever' with Christine Baranski and Richard E. Grant at the Connaught Cinema.
Hay Fever comes to the Connaught Cinema in Worthing from Thursday 14 to Sunday 17 January 2027, as part of the National Theatre's cinema season. It's a filmed production of the play, so you're seeing the stage performance projected onto the big screen rather than a live cast on stage.
Hay Fever is a Noël Coward comedy, and this production stars Emmy and Tony winner Christine Baranski alongside Richard E. Grant. If you're not familiar with the play, it's one of Coward's best-known farces, built around the Bliss family — a self-absorbed, artistic household that turns their own living room into a stage, treating everyone who wanders in as an unwitting extra in their domestic drama. It's a comedy of manners that works just as well as a character study, and having Baranski and Grant lead the cast gives it a particular weight.
Because it's a National Theatre production, you're getting a West End-standard performance without having to travel to London. The cinema format means you'll see the close-ups and the reactions that you'd miss from the back of a theatre, which is often where the best bits of a Coward comedy live — in the raised eyebrow and the perfectly timed pause.
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It runs for four days, from Thursday 14 to Sunday 17 January, so there are plenty of slots to choose from if you can't make a weekday. The screenings are at the Connaught Cinema in Worthing.
