BLITHE SPIRIT

by Noel Coward

June 19, 2003 – August 30, 2003

Blithe Spirit, the smash comedy hit of the London and Broadway stages, offers up fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, re-married but haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira who is called up by a visiting “happy medium,” one Madame Arcati. As the (worldly and un-) personalities clash, Charles’ current wife Ruth is accidentally killed, “passes over,” joins Elvira and the two “blithe spirits” haunt the hapless Charles into perpetuity.

Director: Guy Sanville & Anthony Caselli

CAST:

Sandra Birch*
Terry Heck*
Randall Godwin*
Janet Maylie*
Michelle Mountain*
Kate Peckham*
Malcolm Tulip*

Scenic Designer: Bartley H. Bauer
Properties Designer: Danna Segrest
Costume Designer: Colleen Ryan-Peters
Lighting Designer: Reid G. Johnson
Sound Designer: Quintessa Gallinat
Stage Manager: Michelle DiDomenico*

*Member, Actors’ Equity Association

PRESS QUOTES

“Set designer Bartley H. Bauer’s drawing room is a remarkable spectacle that makes no concessions to the Rose’s small stage, and the technical team, including Reid G. Johnson (lights), Danna Segrest (props) and Quintessa Duffield (sound) complete the show’s picture-perfect design.”

– John Sousanis, The Oakland Press

“The acting is among the best that I’ve seen at the Purple Rose. The pacing is perfect, and the delivery does justice to Coward’s complex verbal character interplay… Although this play is not in the usual Purple Rose category of first-time local playwright talent, it surely gives the actors a chance to flex their funny muscles and gives the audience a great belly-laugh experience.”

– Kent Ashton Walton, The Chelsea Standard/The Dexter Leader

Production Photos by Danna Segrest