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Starring:
Alison Steadman as Madam Arcati
Producer:
Danny Moar, Theatre Royal Bath Productions.
Writer:
Noel Coward
London Days Journey into Night is now showing at the Apollo Theatre.
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Blithe Spirit opened in 1941 when it played for over 2,000 performances. It has been one of the world’s favourite comedy Theatre Breaks ever since.
Novelist Charles Condomine and his second wife Ruth are literally haunted by a past relationship when an eccentric medium manages to conjure up the ghost of Charles’s neurotic first wife, Elvira, at a seance.
They have assumed the preposterous Madame Arcati is a fraud who will simply entertain their dinner guests with a little chicanery and supply Charles with material for his forthcoming novel. But when Elvira appears, visible only to Charles, and is determined to sabotage his current marriage, life – and the afterlife – begin to get complicated.
Alison Steadman plays the improbable clairvoyant, one of theatre’s most hilarious comic Theatre Break creations.
Thea Sharrock is an award-winning director who has previously worked with Daniel Radcliffe, Keira Knightley, Derek Jacobi, John Hurt, Ken Stott, Richard Griffiths and Damian Lewis in the West End. Her production of Rattigan’s After the Dance is currently running at the National Theatre.
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