Blithe Spirit

Files

Streaming Media

Playwright

Noel Coward

Performance Dates

May 31, 1952

Creative Team

Director..............................Marion Chase

Technical Director..............Ken Hanes

Set Design.........................Bob Dunham

Synopsis

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-) personalities clash, Charles’ current wife, Ruth, is accidentally killed, “passes over,” joins Elvira, and the two “blithe spirits” haunt the hapless Charles into perpetuity.

https://www.samuelfrench.com/p/2823/blithe-spirit

Disciplines

Acting | Dance | Theatre and Performance Studies | Theatre History

Keywords

Otterbein Theatre, Performing Arts, College Theater

Recommended Citation

Otterbein University, "Blithe Spirit" (1952). 1907-1958 Productions. 94.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/production_1907-1958/94