Description for Blithe Spirit
Paperback. Series: Acting Edition S. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 5. Weight in Grams: 130.
I will 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. -Noel Coward. Written in 1941, Blithe Spirit remained the longest-running comedy in British Theatre for three decades. Plotted around the central role of one of Coward's best loved characters, a spirit medium Madame Arcati (originally performed by Margaret Rutherford) Coward's play is an escapist comedy about a man whose two previous wives return to haunt him.
I will 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. -Noel Coward. Written in 1941, Blithe Spirit remained the longest-running comedy in British Theatre for three decades. Plotted around the central role of one of Coward's best loved characters, a spirit medium Madame Arcati (originally performed by Margaret Rutherford) Coward's play is an escapist comedy about a man whose two previous wives return to haunt him.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1941
Publisher
Samuel French Ltd
Condition
New
Series
Acting Edition S.
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780573010446
SKU
V9780573010446
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Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-8
Reviews for Blithe Spirit
A minor comic masterpiece of the lighter sort -Professor Allardyce Nicoll