Blithe Spirit

A comic play set by Noel Coward, set in the home of socialite and novelist Charles Condomine

At the start of the play, while dressing for dinner, Charles and his second wife, Ruth, discuss his first wife, Elvira, who died young, seven years earlier. He comments, “I remember her physical attractiveness, which was tremendous, and her spiritual integrity, which was nil”. Among the Condomines’ dinner guests is an eccentric medium, Madame Arcati, whom Charles has invited in the hope of learning about the occult for a story he is writing. He has arranged for her to conduct a séance after dinner. ………