BLITHE SPIRIT
Synopsis:
To collect material for a new book, author Charles Condomine invites local medium Madame Arcarti to conduct a seance at his home.
This causes Charles's first wife (Elvira) to return from death, but she is only visible and audible to Charles and makes his life impossible.
Plotting to get Charles to join her in the spirit world, Elvira tampers with the car but ironically, it's Ruth (Charles's 2nd wife) who dies at the wheel, joining Elvira on the 'other side'.
Now plagued by two jealous spirits, he enlists Madame Arcarti's help to exorcize them, which she never quite manages......
BLITHE SPIRIT
Playwright: Noel Coward
Genre: Comedy Farce
Directed by: Jane Towell
Production Date: May 1961
Group: BHTC
Staged: The Park Centre, Burgess Hill
BHTC Production Number: 19
PLAYWRIGHT: Noel Coward. 'Blithe Spirit' which he wrote in 1941, originally broke all box-office records for a West End comedy and was subsequently made into a film directed by David Lean.
Jo White
Betty Dann
Dennis Nye
Robert Aylett
Norma Phelan
Judy Bytheway
Yvonne Jones
Cast
Edith (A Maid)
Ruth
Charles
Dr Bradman
Mrs Bradman
Madame Arcarti
Elvira
Crew
Leon Figg
Jack Trowbridge
Wendy Evison
Pat McSweeney
H Hopkins
Alan Dann & Peter Campbell
Ester Aylett
Anthony White
Sheila Wells
Bernard Clayman
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