num_pages: 130
description: "An insane farce that is also uproarious."--NY Times"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 years. Plotted around the central role of one of Coward's best loved characters, a medium Madame Arcati (originally played by Margaret Rutherford). Coward's play is a spirited charade about a man with 2 wives, one dead and another alive.
language: English
title: Blithe Spirit
titlecomplete: Blithe Spirit
characters: Charles Condomine, Ruth Condomine, Madame Arcati
genres: Fiction, Plays, Humor, Theatre, Classics, British Literature, Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Audiobook
ratings_count: 5741
places: United Kingdom
awards: awardedAt: -883584000000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best Foreign Play
publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama