Blithe Spirit, by Noel Coward, played from 20th-22nd May 2010 at Knowle Village Hall

Blithe Spirit is a comic play concerning socialite and novelist Charles Condomine who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madam Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to gather material for his next book. The scheme backfires when she inadvertently summons the ghost of Charles’s annoying and temperamental first wife, Elvira, who has been dead for seven years. Elvira makes continual attempts to disrupt Charles’s marriage to his second wife, Ruth, who cannot see or hear the ghost, and chaos ensues.

Cast

Edith, a maid – Anthea Towler
Ruth Condomine – Miranda Sanders
Charles Condomine – Lindsay Warren
Doctor Bradman – Dave Pinwell
Mrs Bradman – Jayne Beecraft
Madama Arcati – Mary Reddy
Elvira – Anneke Towler

Creative

Directed by Chris Adderley