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Blithe Spirit
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 11, 2000
Closed Oct 22, 2000

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http://www.pearltheatre.org

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Noel Coward's riotous comedy, Blithe Spirit is a tongue-in-cheek look at death and dying...and coming back again. Author Charles Condomine is writing a book about fake spiritualists. In order to research, he invites a local psychic to dinner. The following seance brings forth his first wife Elvira, much to the chagrin of Ruth, Charles' current wife. Because Charles is the only one to see and hear Elvira, a massive farce is in the works.

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THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



The Pearl Theatre Company
80 St Marks Pl
New York, NY 10003


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?


"I shall ever be grateful for the almost psychic gift that enabled me to write Blithe Spirit in five days during one of the darkest years of the war," Sir Noël Coward recalled long after the fact. According to Coward's account, the script of the 1941 London hit "was not meticulously constructed in advance and only one day elapsed between its original conception and the moment I sat down to write it. It fell into my mind and on to the manuscript. Six weeks later it was produced and ran for four and a half years, and I am still wondering whether or not it was 'Important'. Only Time will tell."

Time has had its say in the 69 years since Blithe Spirit premiered. More than a quarter centur[...]


Reviewed by Charles Wright on Sep 11, 2000

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