CandoCo devote much of their energy to education, holding workshops and residencies for students and teachers from all over the world.It says a lot about this education that CandoCo have been able to find enough disabled trained dancers to restock. Although they were not the first integrated dance company, they were the first to be so visible, so their example has inspired the formation of other companies worldwide.They have always toured ­ to the Far East, America, Australia ­ and have just returned from their first trip to Russia. They rehearse in their own purpose-built studio theatre in the ASPIRE training centre for spinal injuries in Stanmore, Middlesex. Able-bodied members of the local community are encouraged to use the centre's gym facilities ­ because apartheid is bad for everyone.

That is what CandoCo proclaim on their very public stage: they have made themselves a theatrical mirror of an ideal society, where being disabled doesn't mean that you can't be a conspicuous part of the colourful fabric that is life. Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (020-7960 4242), 18 and 19 May; then Plowright Theatre, Scunthorpe, 22 May; Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 1 and 2 June. The last time that Hay Fever was given a major outing, it sent the critics rushing for their hatchets. The last time that Hay Fever was given a major outing, it sent the critics rushing for their hatchets. Declan Donnellan's version of No?Coward's comedy of bad manners tookeverything to Addams family extremes, but it was very funny in its own right The critical outrage struck me as excessive.

It's not as though Donnellan had irreversibly defaced a Rembrandt. The play is still there to be reassessed, as is proved by Dominic Dromgoole's delightful touring production for Oxford Stage Company. When Dromgoole was the tough young Turk of the Bush Theatre, you'd have bet more money on Danny La Rue playing Stanley Kowalski than on this director deviating into the elegant froth of posh light comedy. But he proves to have a surprisingly sure touch with this genre. His approach is more traditional than that of Donnellan, but there's a freshness of spirit here that gives zest to this dramatic souffl?in which Bohemian artiness and rattled conventionality clash during a disastrous house party in the country.Any production of Hay Fever depends heavily on the actress playing Judith Bliss, the retired grande dame du th?re who is planning an ill-advised comeback.