Heinapalavik

Hay Fever Comedy   Director: Ingomar Vihmar Author: Noël Coward Translator: Anu Lamp Set designers: Andrus Jõhvik, Ingomar Vihmar Music designer: Ingomar Vihmar Lighting designer: Karmen Tellisaar Singing 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 Midsummer Eve in yet another rainy summer, it becomes clear in a beautiful bohemian country house that all the charmingly eccentric (and probably completely crazy) members of the family living there—the former actress mother, the almost-bestselling-writer father, the son with artistic ambitions, and the poetry-inclined daughter—have invited a guest to stay for Midsummer without warning one another, and the guest will have to be put up in their best guest room. When the respectable guests arrive, instead of the expected romantic and peaceful weekend, a tangle of relationship and social games full of surprises and highly comic situations begins, in which even those involved sometimes find it impossible to work out who is where, with whom, and why.     The English writer, composer, actor and singer Noël Coward (1899–1973) entered the history of playwriting with his distinctive style, witty remarks and characters’ refined cynicism—that is, with everything British audiences want to see in the theatre. At Endla, director Ingomar Vihmar takes one of his best-loved and most frequently staged comedies and adds a couple of distinctly Estonian twists to its distinctly English, reserved humour.