Noel Coward 
Blithe Spirit 

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. » Written in 1941, Blithe Spirit remained the longest-running comedy in British Theatre for three decades thereafter. 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.



‘A minor comic masterpiece of the lighter sort’ Professor Allardyce Nicoll