Blithe Spirit a Comedy by Noel Coward Presented by Theatre Aurora February 29 - March 09, 2024 at Theatre Aurora |
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Charles Condomine is a successful novelist. Ruth is his charming, wife. To conduct research for Charles’ latest book, they invite a medium to their home to perform a séance, expecting that the psychic, Madame Arcati, will be a humourous shyster. Well, she is humourous, but her ability to summon the dead is genuine. After prancing about, Madame Arcati summons a ghost from Charles’ past: his first wife, Elvira!!! Charles can see her, but no one else can. Elvira is flirtatious and catty. Ruth thinks her husband is insane. Then, after watching a vase float across the room, Ruth accepts the strange truth. What follows is a darkly funny competition between the two wives as they battle for possession of their husband. But as the haunting and the hollering continue, Charles begins to wonder if he wants to be with either woman at all. |
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