Hay Fever: Winsome..lose some

Who did "winsome" best? Well, we thought we did. That's the problem with Hay Fever; the audience spends the first hour gagging to see how the starry lead does "in the style of the word winsome" and it goes downhill after that rather. Still, this production had a much lighter touch to it than the last one I saw which left rather a nasty taste in the mouth. Thanks for squeezing the three acts into two - we had enough bar time afterwards to down a bottle of red between us and another glass for the road. The costume designer should be shot though. We could probably just about suspend our disbelief to the point of dear Dame Judi seducing a youth (well, a gay one, anyway) but we were utterly distracted by DJ's upper arms which really did make her look 20 years' older than she could have been. More sleeves please, wardrobe.