Blithe Spirit
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jul 18, 2007
Closed Jul 29, 2007
Opened Jul 18, 2007
Closed Jul 29, 2007
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Williamstown Theatre Festival presents Blithe Spirit, by Noel Coward. Maria Mileaf directs.
While researching background information for a new book, author Charles Condomine and his second wife Ruth light-heartedly arrange for the eccentric local mystic, Madame Arcati, to hold a séance. The unfortunate result is that Charles' first wife Elvira is summoned from beyond the grave to rally all the powers of heaven and hell to darken Charles and Ruth's lives.
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The ectoplasm is willing, but Blithe Spirit -- under Maria Mileaf's direction at the Williamstown Theatre Festival -- is weak. Maybe part of the disappointment is that expectations ran so high for actress Wendie Malick, best known for TV sitcoms such as Just Shoot Me, as the eccentric medium Madame Arcati, one of Noel Coward's juicier creations. But her seer is bright-eyed and purposeful, rather than an intrepid, if benighted traveler into the realm of "The Unseen."
That's the title of the book that novelist Charles Condomine (the urbane Bernard White) intends to write after conducting a bit of after-dinner research with the local psychic, whom he presumes to be a fraud. As audiences have [...]