Blithe Spirit
Blithe Spirit Author: Noël Coward
First Performance: 1941, Manchester
Published: 1941
Genre: Farce in 3 acts
Setting: Living room of the Condomines' house, Kent, c.1940
Cast: 2m, 5f
To gather material for his next novel, Charles Condomine has organized a seance at his home. The eccentric medium Madame Arcati arrives, and after fortifying herself with martinis and dinner, begins to summon her spirits. The sceptical Charles is astonished when his late wife Elvira, dead seven years, speaks to him, but she is not heard by anyone else present. After the seance, Elvira materializes to be seen only by Charles (and the audience) and begins to reproach him. When he tells her to shut up, his present wife Ruth imagines he is speaking to her and walks out in a huff. The following day Ruth is still angry, and the...
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