JANIE DEE CHARLES EDWARDS JEMIMA ROOPER
AND
ANGELA LANSBURY
IN
WITH SERENA EVANS SIMON JONES PATSY FERRAN
DIRECTED BY
MICHAEL BLAKEMORE
DESIGNED BY SIMON HIGLETT LIGHTING BY MARK JONATHAN SOUND BY BEN and MAX RINGHAM
CASTING DIRECTOR GABRIELLE DAWES CDG ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR JENNY EASTOP ASSOCIATE COSTUME DESIGNER BILL BUTLER
Theatre legend, Oscar-winner and five-time Tony Award-winner Angela Lansbury returns to the West End this spring for the first time in nearly forty years, in a new production of Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit.
Researching for his new novel, Charles Condomine (Charles Edwards) invites the implausible medium Madame Arcati (Angela Lansbury) to his house for a séance. Whilst consumed in a trance, Madame Arcati unwittingly summons the ghost of Charles’ dead wife Elvira (Jemima Rooper). Appearing only to Charles, Elvira soon makes a play to reclaim her husband, much to the chagrin of Charles’ new wife Ruth (Janie Dee). One husband, two feuding wives and a whisper of mischief in the air – who will win in Coward’s unworldly comedy?