Blithe Spirit

by sally on Friday, August 26, 2011
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written by Noel Coward

directed by Keith Thompson

Date: Tuesday 1st to Saturday 5th November 2011 at 7:30 pm

Box office: 01905 611427

Venue: Swan Theatre

The play

Two weeks after writing this play Coward wrote in his diary: “I really feel I have done a rousing good comedy”. His intuition proved correct for the first production in London ran for four and a half years and seventy years later it is still one of the most popular plays in his repertoire and is currently on in the West End.

Writer Charles Condomine lives happily enough with his second wife Ruth. His next book includes a medium as one of the characters and so, in the interests of research; the Condomines invite Madam Arcati, a local medium, to hold a séance in their home. To everyone’s surprise and consternation, Charles’s first wife Elvira comes back from the dead, providing much confusion since only Charles can see and hear her. Being an “astral bigamist” proves not to be as pleasant as Charles might have imagined and how the situation is resolved is the source of much wit and ingenuity.

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