Noel Coward's sparkling farce "Hands Across the Sea" follows a fashionable, scatterbrained couple who find themselves hosting a stream of houseguests they can barely remember inviting, mixing up names, faces, and social obligations with escalating comic confusion. Coward's piece skewers the chaotic social whirl of the fashionable set, where far too many acquaintances blur together and good manners require pretending to remember people one has utterly forgotten.

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