By Noël Coward: A SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD. TITLE – Full-Length Play, Comedy / 5w, 2m
Directed By: Bill Hinds
A smash comedy hit in London and New York, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives concerns fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, who has remarried but finds himself haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, Elvira. Clever, insistent and well aware of Charles’ shortcomings, Elvira is called up by a visiting “happy medium,” the eccentric and flighty Madame Arcati. As everyone’s personalities clash, Charles’ current wife, Ruth, is accidentally killed. She “passes over” and joins Elvira, allowing the two “blithe spirits” to haunt the hapless Charles into perpetuity.
The Cast
Ben Cooper
as Charles
June Brechin
as Edith
Laura Vesty
as Ruth
Tim Fantom
as Doctor Bradman
Jayne Massey
as Mrs Bradman
Tracy Quigley
as Madame Arctati
Tasha Downes
as Elvira