Dec 17, 2009
Blithe Spirit opens in the fashionable living room of the Condomines’ house in Kent. It is about eight o’clock on a summer evening. Charles Condomine, a novelist, and his wife, Ruth, have invited their friends Dr. and Mrs. Bradman to join them for drinks and dinner with a local clairvoyant, Madame Arcati. Charles is planning a novel about a homicidal spiritualist and wants to observe the behavior of Madame Arcati during a seance after dinner. Before their guests arrive, Charles and Ruth discuss their maid, Edith, and their previous marriages (both were...
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