Blithe Spirit
Written by Noel Coward
Directed by Alan Hunt
9 – 14 June 1986
The smash comedy hit of the London and Broadway stages, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives offers up fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, re-married but haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira, who is called up by a visiting “happy medium,” one Madame Arcati. As the (worldly and un-wordly) personalities clash, Charles’ current wife, Ruth, is accidentally killed, “passes over,” joins Elvira, and the two “blithe spirits” haunt the hapless Charles into perpetuity.
Cast
Edith – Beverley Smalley
Ruth – Janice Wood
Charles – Maurice Tripp
Doctor Bradman – Tom Ellis
Mrs Bradman – Marion Ellis
Madame Arcati – Jean Franks
Elvira – Claire Kingshott
Crew
Stage Manager – David Tallowin
Assistant Stage Manager – Eileen Thatcher
Properties – Barbara Brookes, Betty Willard
Lighting – Martin Trip
Sound – Colin Rayment
Wardrobe – Elizabeth Hunt
Show Gallery
