Blithe Spirit

Charles Condomine, a successful novelist, wishes to learn about the occult for a novel he is writing, and he arranges for an eccentric medium, Madame Arcati, to hold a seance at his house. At the seance, she inadvertently summons Charles's first wife, Elvira, who has been dead for seven years. Madame Arcati leaves after the seance, unaware that she has summoned Elvira. Only Charles can see or hear Elvira, and his second wife, Ruth, does not believe that Elvira exists until Elvira provided proof. The ghostly Elvira makes continued, and increasingly desperate, efforts to disrupt Charles's current marriage. She finally sabotages his car in the hope of killing him so that he will join her in the spirit world, but it is Ruth rather than Charles who drives off and is killed.

Ruth's ghost immediately comes back for revenge on Elvira, and Charles's house is in an uproar. He calls Madame Arcati back to exorcise both of the spirit, but instead of banishing them, she materializes Ruth. With both his dead wives now fully visible, and neither of them in the best of tempers, Charles, together with Madame Arcati, go through seance after seance and spell after spell to try to exorcise them, and at last Madame Archti, hinting that the ghosts may still be around unseen, warns him that he should go far away as soon as possible. Charles leaves at once, and the unseen ghosts throw things and destroy the room as soon as he has gone.

Production Team

Director- Ms. Ann Holmes

Stage Manager- Zachary Glennon

Ass'nt Stage Manager- Gregory Pratt

Co-Sound Heads - Zachary Glennon & Stephanie Couture

Light Head- Quenton Glennon

Prop Head- Jeannique Celestin

Makeup Head- Mercedes Howes

Costume Head - Rebecca Avard

Publicity- Krystel Kippin

Produced in special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.